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Install Magento 2.4.4 with or without Sample data?

We had so many serious problems with Magento 2.4.2-p1 and Magento 2.4.3-p1. I am hoping that today released version Magento 2.4.4 will work better for us (to be fair – the issues we had might have stemmed from us using the Magento Migration Tool).

I was hoping I could just simply install Magento 2.4.4 via Softaculous (WHM/Cpanel) but it is not available there yet. I have reached out to my hosting company and they offered to install this for me. I know there are 2 basic versions available:

- WITH Sample Data
- WITHOUT Sample Data

Which is recommended? I will be exporting products in a CSV format from Magento 2.4.3-p1 and importing into Magento 2.4.4. – same with products and customers.

Are there any other things I should mention to my hosting company when asking them to do the install for me?