Linux Mint 20 has been out for a while.
I decided to do an in-place upgrade from Linux Mint 19.3 to Linux Mint 20. The actual instructions are here. I thought it would be quite problematic, but the upgrade finished without any real issues.
One thing I did do. After the command
mintupgrade check
I copied the output to a text file so I knew which are the packages being removed. These packages will need to be manually installed again after the upgrade.
The command
mintupgrade download
can take some time, depending on the number of packages that need to be downloaded. The next command,
mintupgrade upgrade
really depends on your computer. If you have a fast modern PC, it should not take very long; if you are upgrading on an older PC, it may take a while...
Still, while in-place upgrade does work, the best advice is to do a clean installation if you can do the required backups. This is a good guide on what needs to be done.
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