Move, or reinstall new?

[Tim Wunder]

On Wednesday 05 May 2004 4:10 pm, someone claiming to be Net Llama! wrote:
> On Wed, 5 May 2004, Tim Wunder wrote:
> > On 5/5/2004 3:29 PM, I believe that Net Llama! wrote:
> > > On Wed, 5 May 2004, Tim Wunder wrote:
<snip>
> > I've historically done fresh installs when upgrading distros, except for
> > my last upgrade from RHL 8.0 to FC1.
>
> FWIW, i've never been a very big fan of fresh installs.  They take up so
> much time for me to tweak everything the way I like/need it.  And on top
> of that, upgrading rarely goes 100% smoothly.  There's always stuff that
> is either broken, or just isn't compatible with the new version.

I'm reading this as:
"Don't do a fresh install because upgrades always mess things up."

Surely that's not what you meant...

Tim

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