[FeistySkink]

Thank you for the reply. While I personally never had a single issue with upgrading between Fedora releases, I also have the skills the resolve any potential ones if I would. I don't want to deal with somebody's computer suddenly being borked halfway across the world with no way to assist. So far CentOS fit that niche beautifully, with seldom major clean reinstalls (i.e. wipe root) when I'm there (7.x > 8.x). I'm going to evaluate CentOS Stream and perhaps you are right and it's a viable replacement.

[BenjiWiebe]

(Disclaimer: I am capable of fixing upgrade issues myself.) I've not done a wipe-root reinstall of Fedora since 2013. I've in place upgraded every two versions or so - basically as soon as the version I'm using goes EOL.

[microtonal]

I don't want to deal with somebody's computer suddenly being borked halfway across the world with no way to assist.

Fedora Silverblue could be interesting alternative to regular Fedora then, since you can boot into or roll back to a previous release. You can also pin a known-good OSTree commit, so that one could always boot that version.

[Iolaum]

This. Although I 'd suggest running Silverblue in a VM first to learn about package layering and flatpaks. (This was my migration path. Made sure all my use cases were working within the VM before I installed on bare metal.)