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Adrian wrote: Wed Nov 08, 2023 3:10 pm ... It was not even directed at you, it was at the funny (I thought) comment to that "it works 50% of the time"...

I apologize to you and the forum. It was my knee-jerk outburst, I'm sure, that led him to take your comment personally.
I'm sorry.

Just pointing out: "it’s not guaranteed to work and is not supported in any way by the dev team."

It states that clearly. It is not recommended at all to do it that way. That people are willing to help shows the level of support here. Other places they would have said: you get to keep the pieces.

@wwd Whatever method of upgrading you decide on or can do, do you have or plan to have separate / and / home for future events as this or not ?

I ran Adrian's upgrade script today on two of my Thinkpad laptops (T490 and L430) and it ran flawlessly. Must follow the procedure carefully to get good results. The script worked 100% of the time in my case!

Users should not be discouraged from upgrading using a script as opposed to a fresh install which can take several hours by the time everything is said and done. If someone is comfortable with using the command line they should be able to try different methods to achieve their desired goal of upgrading. In my case this was the ONLY way I could get from MX 21 to 23 on my Lenovo Thinkpad T490 since all other methods I tried failed. Ubuntu has had upgrade scripts available almost since they came on the scene in 2004. Most other active distros still don't have this feature available even after many years of development. Very sad!