The Debian Bookworm -> Trixie upgrade path is by far the [worst/most explosive] I have in recent memory, on the same level of tricky as the sysvinit -> systemd migration The sysctls location change being the #1 killer, but there are so many paper cuts in that particular upgrade to keep an eye out for
one honk maybe more
dee@social.treehouse..
replied 14 May 2026 14:28 +0000
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@benjojo I am old, I still think of Linux upgrades as "backup your data, wipe the machine, install the new version, restore your data",
benjojo
replied 14 May 2026 14:32 +0000
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@dee to be fair, I do that on my desktop for major Ubuntu upgrades. Purely just because it's a good way to get the machine started from a clean slate again, to clean away all of the horrible crap things I've done to the machine over the last 2 years For servers, it really hurts having to rebuild entire systems just because of an upgrade, but trixie in particular is sometimes making that a attractive option
arjjra@mastodon.nl
replied 14 May 2026 14:25 +0000
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@benjojo yeah reverted a couple of “yolo we’ll see how it goes” upgrades to their pre upgrade snapshot already, worse score than usual
tmcfarlane@toot.comm..
replied 14 May 2026 14:28 +0000
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@benjojo I must admit, it's the major upgrade path that stopped me running debian as a desktop. (not that arch is /that/ much better, but the "do magic step to switch major subsystem" parts tend to be rarer, but scarier).
jamesog@mastodon.soc..
replied 14 May 2026 17:28 +0000
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