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Did you consider other RHEL-compatible distros (e.g. Alma, Rocky, or even Oracle Linux which I've found to work quite well despite the negativity towards Oracle)?

I'm glad to hear the Debian update process is smooth, as I'm getting started building a homelab this weekend with Proxmox (Debian-based). Definitely don't want to completely reinstall my hypervisor on a regular basis!

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From my experience RHEL family distros upgrade fairly painlessly between point releases, but with major releases you are better off just reinstalling because of the massive changes between those releases.

Fedora is also usually pretty easy to upgrade between releases these days as long as you follow the instructions.

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RHEL's model is similar to Sun's old model. You sell a small, stable core OS that is well supported for it's lifetime. You are supposed to use it until there is an new version then start using that with the plan for the systems using the old OS to retire. IE. upgrade path is whole-system based and it really isn't designed for upgrading in place.

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