I have an installation of Miniforge on Windows 11 (with base environment of Python 3.10.14) and I would like to upgrade it to the latest (with base environment of Python 3.12). What would be the consequences of simply downloading the new installer and running it? Would it run?

I have no problem with it destroying existing environments.

Then again, is there an alternative that would simply upgrade the base environment? In my experience it is better to have a fresh “base”.