[ShadowAce]

On my last machine, I actually performed a "preupgrade" from F12 to F14. Worked very smoothly. That was the only time I have not done a clean install.

I do keep /home on a separate partition, though, so I don't lose my data.

This laptop is brand new, though. It came with W7, so I reconfigured the HW RAID to mirror rather than striped, and threw F15 on there. It's been a very rewarding experience, with no issues for me at all.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

This time round I have separate partition for /home as well, but - there is a lot of time and effort spent in downloading software and configuring software. I guess I have my yum logs and I could “replay” all the yum installs into a new distro - but still - a working installation is more than just data in /home and what you get out of the box. Even trivial stuff like fonts to more major stuff like server configs and as I said, installed software. I think best to not go through that every 6 months if not necessary. Also maybe this will allow them to work out the gnome3 issues.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

On my last machine, I actually performed a “preupgrade” from F12 to F14. Worked very smoothly. That was the only time I have not done a clean install.

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Just read through the info on “preupgrade” - Fedora claims that this is “the way to go”, that it’s tested, and while not idiot proof or even fool proof, they say that it’s “supported”. I may consider doing a prupgrade from F14 to F15. If I decide to go that route I’ll report back on my experience. Not going to be today or tomorrow though!