On Wed, 13 Apr 2022, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
After decades of Redhat/CentOS (and recent unwelcome IBM
"stream" ephemeralizations, opposite of LTS) I am
transitioning my systems to Mate-Ubuntu LTS.
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Questions for you folks with years of Ubuntu experience:
1) How easy/fraught is a dist-upgrade, say 16.04 to 20.04?
It's pretty easy, and I've never had a machine fail from a dist
upgrade. That said, once you've gone from 16.04 to 20.04 you will find
yourself dealing with unexpected problems and dead-ends. I usually
allow myself one major upgrade before a full reinstallation.
2) Should I wait for 22.04.1 (estimated 3+ months from
now) before playing with 22.04 Jammy?
I've got a jammy VM running and it's in pretty good shape. I've
noticed at least one package on which I rely, bacula, hasn't yet made
its way to jammy, but I suspect it will before the final release.
If I had a system that was currently working, I'd wait until 22.04.0
was released and use it rather than, say, installing 20.04.x and then
upgrade.
If you've got multiple filesystems (rather than just a big root
partition), you might consider using ZFS for them. The Ubuntu ZFS
implementation has for me been very stable, and I find it far more
useful than LVM + ext/xfs.
These days, I use Ubuntu strictly on servers, so my experience of
desktop Ubuntu is no longer relevant. But I think I read that jammy
will complete the move to Wayland, away from X11. You may need to
research how or if that will impact you.
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Paul Heinlein
heinl...@madboa.com
45°22'48" N, 122°35'36" W
