One that will always update?

[Edward78]

Any distro like mint that will updat to the next version without you having to reinstall from .iso written to usb again? 

[Thomas53]

Out of the 30 or so Linux distributions that I'm familiar with, I can't think of any that don't let you update to the newest version.But I guess there may be some that don't.

[y0ur5h4d0w]

anything ubuntu based, you simply use "sudo do-release-upgrade" and it will download the new version if it exists and prompt you to install it if you have your current version fully updated, otherwise you can go for any "bleeding edge" (rolling release) like Arch linux and any Arch based which doesn't need any "do-release-upgrade" at all because simply using pacman -Syu updates the whole system (which is not a 100% correct statement, but for the sake of making it simple it is)

 

in order to keep it simple if you're not used much expert in linux i'd stay with mint or go for ubuntu (or any ubuntu based), if you like to experiment come to the beautiful world of arch linux so you can meme with the "i use arch BTW" too (but don't forget to setup a snapshot system just in case even though ARCH is not that easy breakable as was years ago) lol

 

but i'm sure almost every distro can upgrade itself to the newest version without reinstalling everything, i might be wrong, i use mostly arch, ubuntu, mint and kali 

 

you can check distrowatch to filter out what kind of distributions you're interested in and check if they are still mantained and updated, for example, here's all the rolling release kind of distro:

https://distrowatch.com/search.php?ostype=Linux&category=All&origin=All&basedon=All&notbasedon=None&desktop=All&architecture=All&package=All&rolling=Rolling&isosize=All&netinstall=All&language=All&defaultinit=All&status=Active#simpleresults

[Geneleco]

Mint has a upgrade tool. Here is the guide on using it to upgrade mint 21.3 to 22 https://linuxmint-user-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/upgrade-to-mint-22.html.

 

The other option is to use a rolling release distro like opensuse tumbleweed or a immutable distro like bazzite/bluefin

[EffeectFTW]

I'd recommend using any LTS version of Ubuntu as they can be easily upgraded. 22 LTS to 24 LTS was pretty painless for my system.

[OddOod]

2 hours ago, Edward78 said:

Any distro like mint that will updat to the next version without you having to reinstall from .iso written to usb again? 

What distro are you using that doesn't do this?

[Vishera]

Any Arch based distro should do the trick (Arch is using the rolling release update model), Manjaro and EndeavourOS are popular Arch based options.

[ocueye]

I Think you are a bit confused, most linux distros can be updated with the package manager they come with, for example, to update debian, you type

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

arch is

sudo pacman -Syu

and alpine is 

sudo pkg update && sudo pkg upgrade

 

[1ball]

Gentoo also permits this. Not only do they let you do this, but whenever such an update needs to happen, the Gentoo devs will literally issue a news item (and the package manager will notify you when such a news item has been issued) with instructions on how to upgrade.

 

And also covering all my bases here, remember that you can keep a separate /home partition so that if you ever happen to completely nuke your distro, whichever distro you are on, you can simply reinstall and keep all your files safe.

 

Edit: I now see that you specify "any distro like mint", Fedora Linux permits such upgrades.