>tfw "apt-get dist-upgrade" after 8 months

What makes you think waiting a long time between upgrades is more risky?

>>57512373

It's doesn't change anything.

>>57512388
It has broken my system several times in the past which made me switch back to windows.

wheezy soon will stop receiving security updates

too scared to run dist upgrade

will probably keep running wheezy on my vps forver

>do-release upgrade on mom's PC
>she goes on it, sees something unfamiliar and solves it with her true-and-tried method: unplugging the computer and restarting it that way
>think fuck, it's all fucked, gotta reinstall now
>everything is working fine, just resume the upgrade

I guess it's because it got interrupted during the download phase.

>>57512454
desu as long as you don't have any fucky 3rd party repos in your sources.list, upgrading to 8.5 shouldn't be a problem
I did it from 7 to 8 then to 8.5 on my vps without any downtime