Two weeks ago, DistroWatch reported that Mageia 9 had been released.
Back then, I was swamped with work and, even when the Mageia notifier displayed the announcement a week later, I could not perform the upgrade.
Well, that, and the fact that I normally prefer to do clean installs.
However, I do not have the time I need to perform a clean install right now, so I decided, rather adventurously, to do the upgrade.
Yes, this can mean that, if something goes terribly wrong, I might actually end up doing the clean install to fix the problem, which defeats the purpose. And there are things that can go wrong: the printer-scanner, Steam, my personal configurations...
The notifier told me that I needed 9GB or so of space. I found that rather excessive, but, since I had space, I proceeded. The upgrade took like 3 hours to complete and the notifer told me that everything was ready and I needed to reboot.
So, I rebooted expecting, well, the worst.
After a while (there was a new kernel, so I counted that as normal), the splash screen showed. It was a bit different.
Then the login screen looked a bit nicer. My icon was there, by the way. It was not removed.
I logged in and the KDE animated cat that I had installed was still there and I landed into my old desktop wallpaper, with the neon icon theme and everything seemed the same.
Oh, but I noted that the machine was more responsive.
I printed. It went fine.
I sync'ed my documents. All normal.
My Firefox bookmarks were kept.
And the Steam games worked fine.
I, scratching my head, was dumbfounded. This felt like my same old machine, but with a renewed vitality. The upgrade was perfect.
The magic was performed.
THANK YOU, MAGEIA DEVELOPERS AND COMMUNITY!
