When you upgrade to Fedora 43 
, will you clean install or upgrade/overwrite existing installation…? 
Fedora 43 
Clean Install
In Place Upgrade
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I have an empty disk
I’m going to try installing the Fedora BETA 43 for fun right now… 
With a 20 gbps usb nvme enclosure it takes roughly 10 minutes, start to finish. If I can avoid config clutter, clean install every time.
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Did not see any setup default difference with Fedora BETA 43, so I will go with an in-place upgrade of my current Fedora Linux 42 Workstation… 
I started with Fedora Linux 41 Workstation and did an in-place upgrade to Fedora Linux 42 Workstation when it released and have had no problems since then…
If you use the default disk layout as part of your previous installation then there would be a benefit to going a clean install as the /boot partition will be getting an increase to 2 GiB for new Fedora 43 installs.
See: F43 Emergency Change Proposal / Acceptance: 2G /boot partition (System-Wide Change)
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In general, in place upgrades. However, as Boni noted, F43 introduces changes to default partition layout, and unless you’re fine with manually increasing your /boot/ partition, you may want to reinstall.
It’s also important to note that with traditional systems (like Fedora Workstation) in place upgrade won’t guarantee that you get the same packages compared to clean install. For example, when I upgraded from Fedora 40 to F41, I didn’t got Ptyxis (new terminal app). And it didn’t happened only to me, there were a lot of comments on the internet from people who also had this problem. Over time your installation can diverge a lot from “intended” installation. However, atomic desktops (silverblue, kinoite etc) do not have this problem. Whenever you’re updating to new major version you get the same image (i.e. packages) everyone gets.
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This is what I wanted to test with the BETA install I did the other day, but the new install still only did a 1 GB boot area… Maybe it’s my old system - who knows…
This change came after the beta so won’t be included on that unless you use one of the nightly composes or wait for an upcoming RC release.
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in place upgrade
i don’t have time to reinstall all the coding enviroments again.
and i already have configured the /boot to 2GB manually when i reinstalled 1 year ago
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If you were a complete linux nub and needed your hand held, how would you go about increasing the /boot to whatever the new appropriate size was if you would prefer to just upgrade instead of reinstall clean?
(I’d be wanting to change the boot while on 42 if there’s no issue with doing it preemptively)
In many cases, 1 GB is still big enough, see Long-upgraded systems may run out of space on kernel install / update.
Please open a separate topic about your question if want further advise.
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