Description of the issue (screenshots if relevant):
Users running ROME and wishing to switch to Rock at proper time
Relevant informations:
While waiting for OMLx Rock 6.0 to be officially released, some current ROME/rolling users may want to be prepared to rollback their system if they so wish or need.
Like the above quote does state, rollback is not something we usually recommend, but there is a short window time when Cooker and ROME and/or ROME and Rock share the same content in their repositories.
That will be the proper time for the switch. Not before and not later.
We suggest to follow or bookmark this topic so that you can be ready when the time will come. Instructions will follow.
To be on the safe side, consider to make a backup of your important data right now.
Backups are always a very good practice, regardless
Get your backups done. Don’t go into this without good backups of your data. I don’t care if you are going to upgrade from Rock 5 to Rock 6, or ROME to Rock 6, or a clean install. You need to be prepared.
The safest thing any Linux users of any distro can do is to keep a backup of important data so one can do a fresh install quickly if bad things happen. Granted this does not happen often but if it does you will be very grateful you did this.
I do this and I keep important data on a separate partition that is not a system partition. So if one of my operating systems gets borkified (broken) the /Data partition is still available. I can do fresh install, configure, and be back in business in hour or so.
For installed systems there are things like Timeshift so you can restore an installed system to an earlier snapshot if something bad happens. I am still learning Timeshift myself.
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