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I am not convinced by their "Fresh Upgrade" that looks like a fresh install! Ideally we should be able to upgrade automatically like Chrome or Windows or Wordpress. The future of Linux is here.

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With a clean install, there's less chance of an incident, and if you put /home on a separate partition, you don't have to back up your data (although you should, anyway). If you installed extra packages from the repos, you can get them back with:

  dpkg --get-selections > packages.txt

After reinstalling, do

  dpkg --set-selections < packages.txt
  sudo apt-get dselect-upgrade

As for automatic upgrades, that goes against the Linux / free software attitude that the user should be in control of her computer and know what it's doing. I think that's why there's no GUI option for automatic upgrades although unattended-upgrades does exist.

You serious? Keeping your system secure without the users intervention goes against free software?

Some kind of service pack to update the software would be nice. But if Wordpress is automatic when you choose to update, you are not obliged to update, there is nothing against free software here!

Linux Mint Debian Edition is a rolling release distribution. There are important differences between regular mint and LMDE.

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