I'm looking for opinions and experience, not problem-solving - I've already validated my options. Please read the whole thing....
Current fully-working build:
ASRock "Fatal1ty" Z370 ITX/ac - i7-9700, 32GB
Samsung 970 1TB NVMe
RX 570 4GB
Broadcom BCM4360 wifi & BT
OpenCore 1.0.7
Big Sur 11.7.10
I've installed Ventura on a spare disk to test, and am satisfied with the result. My normal procedure from here would be to install a new NVMe drive, do a clean Ventura install, and use Migration Assistant to copy my apps and data from the old drive.
However, the current boot drive is less than 2 years old and more than big enough for my needs. I don't want to replace it. That leaves a couple of choices:
- making a bootable backup on an external drive for insurance and for Migration Assistant, wiping the NVMe and doing the usual
- doing a full Time Machine backup and doing a clean install, then migrating from Time Machine
- making the TM backup and doing an upgrade in place.
- Making the bootable backup to external disk, wipe the NVMe & install Ventura, and installing apps and Homebrew clean instead of via Migration Assistant.
I know that #4 is by far the most trouble, but I've been doing Migration Assistant every major upgrade since I moved off my G5. I have a *lot* of junk programs installed over the years, and a lot of leftover cruft in ~/Library from stuff that didn't uninstall cleanly.
On the other hand, none of that seems to be causing any trouble, and I've seen a lot of reports of successful upgrades-in-place from Big Sur to Ventura. I'm sort of leaning toward just running the installer in place.
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