On 2021/09/03 06:06, Simon Connah wrote:
Hi,
I'm going to be in hospital for about 2 months and won't be able to use my laptop during that time. Is it safe for me to upgrade TW with a 2 month gap of no updates or should I just reformat and install the newest version from scratch?
Major condolences! It doesn't seem likely that such a stay is likely to be "fun". Best wishes & best of luck. Maybe rent a laptop for a few months? That's a long time to be offline (at least I'd be concerned about withdrawal! ;-) ). As for package upgrading... not sure but it seems like you are having to make a double saving throw!... If you have your personal stuff backed-up, you'll start w/a clean system if you reinst. It really depends on how much customization you've done. Safest would be to uninstall as many packages as you can that you don't use and then try to uninstall packages that were only dependent on those packages you uninstalled due to disuse. Give that an upgrade try when you get back. If it looks too troublesome, go for the reinst. In the scary + unlikely department, you could come back and find you can only install packages from the Win^W"Open"SUSE App store... Or find dropped support for any TW version older than 2021-07-01 while also finding no one can install the new stuff unless all of their HW supports the full "Palladium" spec (yet to be finalized, but don't let that worry ya... :-)) What could go wrong? Best of luck...