Sunny

Last night I started the upgrade on my desktop computer. It runs Debian Linux, the version yesterday was 12 and this morning version 13 was officially released. I've upgraded several other systems already - before the version was finalised and they all upgraded without issue and seemed to be perfectly fine. My desktop is the first system that has been upgraded many times - the others have only gone through a single upgrade cycle.

My desktop started on version 7 (Wheezy) and has been upgraded every 2 years or so to the next version, which as of this morning in 13 (Trixie). Each upgrade moves the main parts of the software that make up the system on around 2 years - some less that aren't very variable. Between release upgrades Debian doesn't change anything at all, patches are released to fix security bugs but basically nothing else changes.

This morning I rebooted the system after it had finished the upgrade on it's own sometime in the small hours of the morning, and was greeted with white text on a white background - which was interesting to say the least. I manage to login and while it works and looks very similar to the last version, there are quite a few annoying glitches and certain programs aren't very stable. I've forced uninstall and reinstall of a few things are they are a lot better now.

This is the first Debian upgrade I've ever had with so many issues. I suspect that my system's profiles and settings have legacy settings in them that are confusing the latest software. I don't normally reinstall from scratch as I don't like having to reconfigure the system back to how I like it, but if things don't settle down I think a clean new install of Debian may be in order.

Later than planned I took my four legged friend for a walk - he doesn't care about IT as long as he gets a walk, and then on my return took today's blip of the sunflowers at my mother-in-law's as I left.

Hoping that things sort themselves out as I don't like reinstalling from scratch if I can help it.