• pulsewidth@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    5 hours ago

    That’s great to hear. I’ve had mixed results with migrating Windows editions in the past, and I believe it’s still an officially unrecommended process due to hiccups that can occur during, and difficulties in diagnosing issues afterwards (can be a bit of a frankenstein as far as libraries WinSXS content, system logs, etc).

    • adarza@piefed.ca
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      4 hours ago

      normally i’d be against ‘upgrades’, too, especially that different.

      but this was a special case and i did have three decades of wading through this shit to pay the rent to work from. a fair bit of reading and a lot of prep ahead of time made the actual upgrade process itself almost completely uneventful. i did find one odd thing after it ran awhile, but it hasn’t resurfaced since.