Questions about avoid mixing NomadBSD and FreeBSD and NomadBSD upgrade

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I read many posts here and try to avoid making big mistakes.
I installed the current NomadBSD to an USB device and from there to my internal SSD because of higher speed and convenience on my laptop.
I updated the packages with OctoPkg and everything works fine.
I don’t use freebsd-update for not mixing NomadBSD with FreeBSD. Is this right?
So I only use OctoPkg or pkg update to stay with an updated NomadBSD.

What to do with an upcoming new NomadBSD release and my installed system? With a reinstall, will all my data be deleted? (Of course I have a backup.) Or is it possible to use a “reinstall” and update my existing data without deleting them?

I would like to stay with NomadBSD. But I also wonder to install FreeBSD, which is more effort to get everything running. I used FreeBSD in the past, but I like the work of the NomadBSD developers and would like to stay with it.

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The nomad developers will establish this in due course with a post here on the forum.
For my part, I have always done a new installation with new versions.

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I have upgraded freebsd-update fetch install to FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE-p4 — everything works smoothly after reboot and pkg update.

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Thanks for your answers. I will use freebsd-update and pkg update to stay updated. And with a backup of my data I will see what happens on upcoming new releases.

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Today I upgraded to FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE-p5 — so far so good.

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I also upgraded to Release-p5 without issues.