clean install: you make a backup, nuke the computer, install a fresh upgraded copy of the distro you want from a live usb, copy your data again to the computer.

upgrade: you wait ‘till the distro’ developers release an upgrade you can directly install from your soon to be old distro, you use a command like sudo do-release-upgrade

and why do you upgrade like that?

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    5 months ago

    Neither. I use a rolling release distro.

    But if I have to use release based distros, I probably would clean install.

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      5 months ago

      A rolling release distro is basically a requirement for me. I abhor major release upgrades. They’re usually labor intensive and often break things.