system76
unclear specific version reference in difference-between-pop-ubuntu
At the bottom of docs/content/difference-between-pop-ubuntu.md it says
Refresh Installs are only available on a fresh install of either Pop!_OS 19.04 or 18.04 (not through upgrading).
Is this a statement that needs to change to include recent versions, or is it only supported in those two versions?
That's definitely stale info, thanks for the report!
Although, it might make sense to delete the sentence altogether. I think the sentiment behind it was that 18.10->19.04 upgrades would not have the Refresh feature since the 18.10 installer would not have created the recovery partition with the correct features. There is now a mechanism for updating the recovery partition, and refresh can done from a live disk anyway, so the caveat is probably unnecessary now.
The recovery partition started being a feature with 18.04; you would still not have one if you installed 17.10 and kept the same install up-to-date until now.
Given the nature of this article (not really supporting any particular troubleshooting/etc), I would not be opposed to removing the sentence entirely. The recovery partition is also not available on legacy BIOS/CSM installs, or with most custom partition layouts, but we don't say anything about those cases here. (Also, a user should be able to perform a refresh install from a live disk even if they don't have a recovery partition.)
As a newcomer, the sentence is a bit confusing anyway, since it has the word refresh and fresh in it.
I wanted more information on how to get a recovery partition, though. That sounds like such a great idea! Is it one of the choices on the menu for the live disk, or just done behind the scenes on a fresh install?
That's a good point as well. When we're updating this section, let's also add a link to the recovery partition article: https://support.system76.com/articles/pop-recovery
We updated that article recently so let me know if it still is unclear in a new issue.
