03-31-2020, 10:49 PM
Simple answer is yes but by upgrading series. Then if you do not know your way around things will be extremely hard to do as things will be broke and some serious know-how will need to be used. If you are going to copy 4.8 over 3.8 then just copy that backup of your home directory and use your existing partitions when installing. It would actually probably be faster to do a clean install than the time it takes to download, upgrade then fix a whole host of things and loose some of the stuff you had since it will write over settings. There are choices and I am sure googling will show you how but be warned there are a lot of things that will need to be fixed. I did it and I am saying this from experience.