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So should I do a full reinstall or a dist-upgrade?
I've done 3 dist-upgrades... Just read the release notes and if not, at least the warnings that show up during the apt upgrade process... Dont just hit "yes" or "quit" on all the text
dist-upgrade is a lot faster and easier, and is usually well tested
I upgraded my distro relatively easily, had to purge and reinstall my nvidia packages & driver but other than that we’re back in action almost as if nothing changed.
KDE got a bit fancier with Plasma 6, a lot of themes no longer work.
I read the upgrade notes and nothing seems changed for my setup (intel igpu and xfce4) so i'll wait for a few weeks and probably do an upgrade then
You will get XFCE 4.20 at least. You can run Wayland now if you use Labwc as a compositor.
Even as a Wayland fan though, I would stay on Xorg for now if you are using XFCE.