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All the troubles with Debian upgrade (feddit.org)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by arty@feddit.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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So a new major version of Debian has been released, and now I see a lot of complaints about various issues stemming from an upgrade. I do not remember this many after an LTS Ubuntu version. I don't want to rush to conclusions like "Ubuntu has money for better quality assurance". I can easily come up with explanations for why these statistics can be skewed, like "Ubuntu-loving plebeians do not come to complain to elite Lemmy users about their puny problems". I'm curious what you think?

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[–] nfreak@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

It's always hit or miss depending on the system. I upgraded one machine to Proxmox 9 and a VM and my VPS to Debian 13, the only one that gave me some trouble was my VM and that's because I had an older package installed that was being a pain to remove because of dependency issues.

[–] cevn@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Ive had Ubuntu shit itself 6 different times after upgrade. People still use ubuntu??

[–] arty@feddit.org 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I had smooth sailing with Ubuntu for many years, but I don't judge other people's choices

[–] cevn@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I would bet that any upgrade bug that happens in Debian is just as likely, if not more, to happen in Ubuntu. The most frequent issue which happened to me was not enough space on the boot partition for the new kernel which somehow never got figured out in a seamless manner.

You also wont get posts when people’s upgrades go well. So even if 99.99% upgrade fine, the .01% are going to go and complain since they dont have the experience to fix things themselves.

[–] digdilem@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's fine, I'm don't know why you're trying to generate shade with this post and comments.

[–] arty@feddit.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

What other hoops should I have jumped through to avoid being perceived as "generate shade"? I thought I did my best.

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