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I just don't want to upgrade every 6 months is all. I stick to popos/ubuntu LTS for daily drivers and arch when I want to be cutting edge. Fedora is in some strange middle ground to me.

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I used to burden myself by reinstalling the OS with every new update, because I wanted a clean OS I reasoned. Eventually I stopped worrying and it hasn't been a problem. I'm still open to doing a fresh install if something goes wrong. I still back up my data knowing that the OS or the hardware can die any time.

To update to the latest Fedora versions I run a shell command and 30 minutes later I have the new version and I can hardly tell the difference.

I've been waiting for mine to break after my last fresh install on Fedora 27 (when i got an SSD for the first time). I'm on Fedora 36 now and it's been fine. I've been waiting for a new computer to do the next fresh install.

I think Fedora release is officially supported for 13 months, which allows one to upgrade every other release, or be a release behind at all times, if desired.

They seem to do go a good job updating major components for latest-1 release: kernel, Firefox, etc.

However, I noticed that say Chromium updates are not as fast or at latest version. So using Fedora that way might not be best choice.

What I found working (although I haven't been using fedora for quite a few years now) is to skip a release if possible. Only when it seemed the N+2 is still too broken I upgraded to N+1.

A lot of people live a release behind latest going by:

https://retrace.fedoraproject.org/faf/summary/

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