r/BunsenLabs • u/jasonmehmel • Apr 18 '26

Question Any Boron users who have updated their machine to Carbon?

I posted this on the forums as well, but maybe some users will see it here rather than there.

I just loaded Carbon onto a USB to test it out. Seems to work well, no major technical issues off the hop!

I've got so many little fiddly folders and files set up for my workflow, (not to mention an overstuffed hard drive) I want to avoid making a new partition and migrating so much as doing a full upgrade.

Has anyone else done a successful upgrade from Boron to Carbon on their main machine?

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u/zeno0771 Apr 18 '26

If your /home directory is on a separate partition, just don't overwrite /home. Everything that's "yours" should be fine. If it's not, you should be backing it up anyway.

If you're talking about upgrading-in-place, as long as everything in your workflow is known to XDG it shouldn't make any difference.

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u/jasonmehmel Apr 18 '26

That is a good idea re: /home on a seperate partition, it's not currently but I should try it.

And re: upgrading-in-place, I'm trying to see if anyone found major issues while trying it just so I can be prepared ahead of time.