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Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2025 11:53:46 +0100
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On Sun, 12 Jan 2025, rbowman wrote:

> On Sun, 12 Jan 2025 00:44:30 +0100, D wrote:
>
>> This is the truth! Part of my christmas holidays were spent upgrading my
>> work laptop, my fathers laptop and my backup server to opensuse 15.6.
>> All went beautiful, quick, and without any problems at all.
>
> To give the devil his due I hit the 'download and install' button for 24H2
> and went for a hike. When I got home the laptop was up and running. A
> quick check showed my Python venvs were functioning.
>
> The Ubuntu 22.04 to 24.04 upgrade required manual intervention at two
> points and would have failed completely unattended. I lost postgres, the
> Thunderbird snap had to be manually installed and the venvs are hosed.
> There was also unexpected crap on the desktop.

Have you tried alpine for email? It is terminal based, but a very powerful 
piece of software!

> Fedora 40 to Fedora 41 ran unintended with no problems and it didn't break
> my Python projects.
>
> I'll continue to live with it but Ubuntu and GNOME doesn't impress me.
> Several people on the ubuntu subreddit said they always do a fresh install
> because of the upgrade problems.

This is the truth! I am always afraid that upgrades will give me problems 
for some reason, but I have never experienced this. Maybe it is because as 
I've gotten older, I tinker and customize less, and perhaps that is why 
upgrades now run very smooth.

A for gnome, maybe try xfce? I find it a nice balance of batteries 
included and light resource use.