11-29-2020, 11:34 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-29-2020, 11:43 PM by rocket2nfinity.)
Which is what you would want to do if your local files are corrupted and -Syu doesn't work.. Hence my dist-upgrade comment. I assumed this is what he wanted. No, not an exact equivalent as arch is a rolling release.
To answer his question, usually doing an upgrade, or if that hangs, a dist-upgrade will solve a lot of your problems and is sufficient. As an intermediary, you can manually remove or re-install a bad program as long as your system isn't too borked. But, for some changes, or after a lot of hacky experimentation, it is best just to reflash. As long as you are just updating your OS from the repos, upgrading is fine. If something breaks big time, or something major such as the boot gets changed, as with Megi's 5.9 kernel, then it's best just to reflash if you are not a linux expert.
And yes, all features will be the latest with any upgrade, with the exception of things that need boot/firmware changes. Those require reflashing or firmware patching.
To answer his question, usually doing an upgrade, or if that hangs, a dist-upgrade will solve a lot of your problems and is sufficient. As an intermediary, you can manually remove or re-install a bad program as long as your system isn't too borked. But, for some changes, or after a lot of hacky experimentation, it is best just to reflash. As long as you are just updating your OS from the repos, upgrading is fine. If something breaks big time, or something major such as the boot gets changed, as with Megi's 5.9 kernel, then it's best just to reflash if you are not a linux expert.
And yes, all features will be the latest with any upgrade, with the exception of things that need boot/firmware changes. Those require reflashing or firmware patching.