Is it worth it?

Posted Aug 15, 2024 12:25 UTC (Thu) by anton (subscriber, #25547)
In reply to: Is it worth it? by yeltsin
Parent article: A new kernel-version policy for Ubuntu

Same experience here. We have a Debian 11 installation (with ZFS) that we have cloned (using ZFS resilver) to a number of machines, and they all work without fuss. IIRC we upgraded the kernel before cloning in one or two cases, because the target hardware was newer than Debian 11.

By contrast, my experience with Windows has been that every hardware change caused pain, and there were recommendations like "uninstall the old driver first", which for graphics cards guaranteed that the desktop would be perturbed. Maybe Windows has improved in the meantime, but Linux certainly used to be far superior. And what I read in tests about new AMD CPUs indicates that Windows still has problems in this area.