Comment 4 for bug 1187953

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BrenBarn (brenbarn-c) wrote :

It does not "make sense" from a user perspective. If a user wants to upgrade without reinstalling, that is what they want, period. As craftyguy says, this is especially egregious since Linux Mint touts its userfriendliness. Having to reinstall your operating system, ever, is not user-friendly.

I can certainly see that it is easier from a development perspective to not support this, but it should be on the radar for future improvements. Part of the appeal of a user-friendly system like Mint is that it shuns the dev-centric mentality so common to other Linux distros. To be user-friendly, you need to make things easy for users, even if that means making it hard for the devs. If an operating system is to be easy to use, it needs to be easy to upgrade when the time comes.