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Help me understand Linux distros updates. (startrek.website)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Hi I'm relatively new to Linux. There's talk about updating, say from Fedora 37 to 38.

Is this something that needs to happen manually? If I solely update through the updater software, I'm not getting the whole "38"?

I understand that, of course, I won't see updates on the installer or I won't use a new supported partition type unless I install it again.

Apart from that, what's missing? Some software won't be updated? The kernel?

Thank you all!

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[–] [S] 4 points 3 years ago

This is everything I was looking for, thank you so much!

what makes you think you won’t?

I'm not sure, I think the emphasis on news about distro update around the web. It makes me confused as to what's so important about that, but I now understand perfectly. I thought it worked a bit more like a rolling distro and I now understand what a rolling distro is :)

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