Upgrades From Debian 12 [to 13]
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The Debian project has released upgrade notes for moving from Debian 12 to Debian 13, sparking interest and discussion among users about the upgrade process and its implications.
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> ... there is always a chance that you may experience problems rebooting your system after the upgrade
This doesn't give me confidence in the process. Don't get me wrong, Debian (and derivatives) are great systems, but the lack of any real rollback option and notes like this right at the beginning of upgrade docs just scream "don't do that, just do a fresh install". Which is probably a good advice.
Then again its VMs, so you get easy snapshots as a rollback option.
As profit on Debian you learn how the package manager works and you become confident using its low level tools when things break.