i’m going to be doing the same thing as you and i’ve lost count of how many times i’ve done it.

the cleanest experiences happened when backed up all my data and did a clean installation like the first time. this worked so well that i’ve been defaulting to it up until fedora 18; when i distro hopped with my linux-first laptops.

i got a cheapo/off-brand windows laptop now and put fedora 43 on it and i think i’ll use the guided updater this time. (assuming that’s still a thing).