[dignan]

I have the same laptop and this is also my fourth upgrade on it. Really excellent.

It is impressive how much the upgrade process has improved over the years. Years ago you could either risk updating your repo files and yum updating, or just do a full reinstall. Then they built fedup which was a command line tool that made it easy, but still required several different commands. Now it’s driven through the GUI and a better experience than macOS upgrades in my opinion.

[m4rtink]

For the record you can still upgrade from the command line with the DNF system upgrade plugin: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/dnf-system-u...

Once started the upgrade process is preatty much the same as the GUI update - download all needed packages, check if there are no conflicts with what is already installed, then reboot to minimalistic systemd target and run the update here.

Doing it like this makes sure that packaging conflicts, network connectivity or unrelated processes running on the machine can break your system.