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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There is a distinction between regular updates and distribution upgrades. The latter have to be done manually. I know that distribution upgrades via GUI have been in the works; no idea if that is a thing yet.
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/upgrading-fedora-new-release/
As for what’s missing: The most important thing to keep in mind is that fedora releases only get security updates for 1 year after release + some grace period depending on the date of the n+2 release.
ctrl+alt+t
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade -y
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -y
sudo apt-get autoremoveOp is talking about Fedora not Ubuntu/Debian. This does not apply.
Poorly upgrades often only work manually. They are like dates, sometimes more happens, sometimes less, so they may be a bit random, but its good to wait a bit and then upgrade, as they introduce new possibly breaking changes. Meanwhile the old version (on Debian and Ubuntu even multiple ones) still get updates, mainly security fixes, but on Fedora I think there are none, so in a different way non-major updates
