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Upgrade vs Reinstall
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Whatever makes you happiest in the moment.
If you have any concerns whatsoever that an upgrade over the top of an existing system might cause problems and/or leave cruft behind that will bug you, however harmless it might be: backup, format the system partition, install fresh.
Otherwise, backup, install the upgrade.
One strategy might be to upgrade a couple of times and then for the next upgrade, start afresh instead.
That might be what I choose to do when the next version of my distro comes out since I've upgraded the last couple of times. Prior to that I basically started afresh because I changed distro. Maybe I'll change distro again.
I should probably mention that I'm a home user in charge of one PC and have never been a main sysadmin (sysadmin gofer and work monkey, yes; boss, no), so you might want to take this under advisement.