[ale] Good Linux Laptop from Lenovo?

[Solomon Peachy]

On Mon, Dec 07, 2020 at 11:20:18PM -0500, Jim Kinney via Ale wrote:
> Upgrades: jumping more than 2 releases in Fedora is a frightening 
> thing. 

...and they will be the first to tell you to not do that.  :)

(Seriously; they don't support nor even attempt to test >n+2 ugprades)

> Low-level stuff changes that aren't checked on every release.  
> I used to do the upgrade dance. Now I either upgrade through every 
> release or back up, install, restore /home cycle.

I only bother with total teardown/reinstall upon complete hardware 
replacement.  And even then only if something else prevents just 
transferring over the old filesystem as-is.  (eg major repartitioning, 
cpu/boot architecture changes, etc)

 - Solomon
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Solomon Peachy			      pizza at shaftnet dot org (email&xmpp)
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High Springs, FL                      speachy (freenode)
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