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9 year hardware upgrade, running arch 😱
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That's comforting to know.
I have kinda the opppsite: a machine that isn't changing it's hardware, but it hasn't had updates in ~2 years (due to some issues with an AUR package back then...)
I wonder if it'll upgrade...?
I've kept arch-keyring updating now & again... so it should work, but I know packages change dependencies so, it'll be an interesting one (ie full backup first)
I brought a 10 month old system up to date and here is the advice I was given:
Unexpectedly, I did not have to resolve any dependency issues. I just hit "enter" on any prompt lol
Thanks, good to know... although I'll do one other thing first... a full backup with clonezilla first ;)