After decades of Redhat/CentOS (and recent unwelcome IBM "stream" ephemeralizations, opposite of LTS) I am transitioning my systems to Mate-Ubuntu LTS.
---- Questions for you folks with years of Ubuntu experience: 1) How easy/fraught is a dist-upgrade, say 16.04 to 20.04? 2) Should I wait for 22.04.1 (estimated 3+ months from now) before playing with 22.04 Jammy? ---- 22.04 Jammy is in beta, and allegedly full release in a few days, but experiments with the beta haven't worked well. I have two test machines running 20.04.4 Focal; those work reliably. I hope to complete my transitions "soon", rather than create more content using CentOS. I prefer to install distros with (eventually) two more years years of LTS/Security updates, but not if that is more work now than a major dist-upgrade later ... for example, moving all systems from 20.04.x to 26.04.1 in 4.3 years. Keith Note: as my predilection for Mate attests, I have no interest in fashionable user interfaces. Most of my hardware and content and creations are also "classic hack". Terabyte solid state drives in 20 yo laptops containing some documents and images I created 50 yo. Some will transform the world a century from now. -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected]
