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Anything special to deal with if upgrading CPU generation?
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I did a similar upgrade last year. I don't recall any problems under Debian. I now have Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, which my old mobo did not support.
Of course, you should be sure to do a full backup.
I don't have anything important to back up, I would just like to avoid reinstalling everything, particularly my Steam library.
If I can save myself the trouble, that's all I want. I know Windows doesn't like that kind of upgrades and you end up with a ton of useless drivers sitting around for nothing, but I haven't been on Windows in a couple years.
Windows is better these days (or at least last time I did a drive swap on win 10)
I have taken bare metal linux/BSD and gone vm and back with disk passthrough without issue (Xeon => vm on Xeon => i5 13xxx => vm on i5)