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I use my home PC for RDP access to my work. I rarely use my W7 boot. If I do the upgrade to Mageia5, will it retain my home dir, update Reminna FDP client, Tomb encrytion, etc. Or will it install a plain vanilla MG5? I assume it won't touch my W7 install, or the the bootloader.

Any advice about the reliability of the upgrade process, much appreciated. I can't afford to do the upgrade if there is a non-neglible chance of screwing up my setup.

TIA,

Joel

Upgrading only updates alls the packages to those of the new distro release, it does not touch your home directory.
From the various upgrade options, only when you use the DVD there would be the slightest possibily that you can install a plain vanilla mga5,
if you deliberately select installation rather then the default upgrade. But even then if would not touch a separate /home partition, that will not be formatted by default anyways.

That said, in general I'd recommend the upgrade online using urpmi https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_5_Rel ... _.28CLI.29
The upgrade is pretty robust and was thoroughly tested. In any case, even when it would be 100% failsafe, you should not neglect to take a full backup of your system.

FWIW, what do you mean by tomb encryption?