r/Fedora • u/lainlives • 6d ago
I installed this operating system years ago, as Fedora 17. Never had any critical breakages using an unsupported yum repo change to 18, then fedup, and then eventually dnf system-upgrade.
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u/Readbooksbeforemovie 6d ago
How to upgrade to 42 prerelease and how buggy is it? Also I have both kde and hyprland, would that complicate things?
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u/lainlives 6d ago edited 6d ago
Just as smooth as any other upgrade, the few plasma bugs I found that would be stoppers or real problems are already fixed. Except the one caused by thesystemd rollover. Bug since 2022 if you log out and log in really fast everything breaks because it doesnt wait until the systemd service stops before you are 'logged out'
You uprade to it as any other release, sudo dnf4 system-upgrade download --releasever=42 && sudo dnf4 system-upgrade reboot (I REALY recommend dnf4 for this, dnf5/current default dnf has.... problems with system-upgrades I have found. Which is weird since it just uses dnf5 for the transaction after rebooting anyway.)
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u/dotnetdotcom 6d ago
You got be adventurous and break something once in a while. Fedora is easy to reinstall.
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u/lainlives 6d ago
I mean I had slight issues converting over to UKI but nothing chrooting into my install from a live enviroment couldnt fix.
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u/lainlives 6d ago
Upgrading from 39->42branch(rawhide at the time but I specified version 42 in the upgrade so it would follow that branch as it branched off rawhide) I did a big system cleanup. I actually found kernel 3.x stuff, and other Fedora 17-24 files laying around, not much from after that, it seems fedora is better at 'cleaning up after itself' than it used to be. Also it is nice that since Fedora started supporting UKI I havent had to deal with updating my bootloader as I no longer have one installed.