Hi I’m relatively new to Linux. There’s talk about updating, say from Fedora 37 to 38.
Is this something that needs to happen manually? If I solely update through the updater software, I’m not getting the whole “38”?
I understand that, of course, I won’t see updates on the installer or I won’t use a new supported partition type unless I install it again.
Apart from that, what’s missing? Some software won’t be updated? The kernel?
Thank you all!
This is an imperfect analogy, but think of updating between Windows 10 and 11 versus installing updates on windows 10 or win 11.
I have no experience with Fedora, but AFAIK at least in Ubuntu/Debian land, updates are installed from OS version specific package repositories. When the version of the OS is no longer supported, those repositories might not receive updates anymore.
EDIT: this is the main reason I have a rolling release distro on most of my personal machines. The package repos have the newest packages without having to update my OS major version every now and then.