Updating vs Reinstalling Cosmic

[Dirleye]

Is it necessary to completely reinstall Cosmic between Alpha versions to replace/remove config files, etc, or are the usual packager manager updates enough?

[jacobgkau]

You can just install updates as normal through the package manager. The alpha "releases" are just isos built from the latest packages available at that time, and tags in the various Git repos for non-Pop!_OS distros to target.

Edit: The config file question is valid, but there haven't been any major breaking changes so far, and those are generally being avoided even though we're still in alpha.