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Comment by sugarpimpdorsey

Fair warning: the Trixie update does not allow you to roll back. It is in theory possible but practically it not only fails every single time, but leaves the system in an inconsistent and broken state. (Code for 'soon to be unbootable').

What this means is when you find out stuff breaks, like drivers and application software, and decide the upgrade was a bad idea, you are fucked.

More notably, some of the upgrade is irreversible - like MySQL/MariaDB. The database binary format is upgraded during the upgrade. So if you discover something else broke, and you want to go back, it's going to take some work.

Ask me how I know.

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