Re: Clean install or update

2021-07-28 Thread Reco
On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 12:41:44PM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > On 2021-07-28 7:24 a.m., Reco wrote: > > Hi. > > > > On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 06:25:50AM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside > > wrote: > >>> 2. Force it to use UEFI and not the BIOS & bios-grub > >> Again cl

Re: Clean install or update

2021-07-28 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, On 2021-07-28 7:24 a.m., Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 06:25:50AM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside > wrote: >>> 2. Force it to use UEFI and not the BIOS & bios-grub >> Again clueless of why you say that. >> Other than some rack server, > > Modern x86 servers happ

Re: Clean install or update

2021-07-28 Thread Reco
Hi. On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 06:25:50AM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > > 2. Force it to use UEFI and not the BIOS & bios-grub > Again clueless of why you say that. > Other than some rack server, Modern x86 servers happen to use UEFI too. Modern ARM64 servers do it too. Th

Re: Clean install or update

2021-07-28 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, On 2021-07-27 5:22 p.m., Gunnar Gervin wrote: > Polyna, > I prefer clean install because my old computer often crashes after updating. Maybe you could share your computer information on the group and I'm sure many of fellow user will be glad to help you solve your problems. If it does crash o

Re: Clean install or update

2021-07-28 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, On 2021-07-27 5:22 p.m., Gunnar Gervin wrote: > Polyna, > I prefer clean install because my old computer often crashes after updating. If you want to do a clean install every two days because new software will require you to update your Debian box, then it's your choice. But I use my system fo

Clean install or update

2021-07-27 Thread Gunnar Gervin
Polyna, I prefer clean install because my old computer often crashes after updating. According to my expert friend, Linus Torvalds "user space respect" means he asks developers Not to invade / destroy user space; crashing some computers cos they`re thinking "it`ll work for most users, so we`re goin