If you don’t have a lot of weird stuff installed, the upgrades should be painless, and are usually more painless if you do them relatively soon, late enough for the kinks to be found, but not long enough for stuff to get too old, that’s when the real issues come up, often a case of key servers and whatnot. Of some relevance may be Rolling Rhino coming up, and another alternative that has kept my 20 year old Lenovo x220 chugging along, is plain old vanilla Arch Linux, with its rolling release.
On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 10:38 AM ANTHONY SCHLEMMER <aschl...@comcast.net> wrote: > I am facing the same issue. I my own a laptop running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. I > know is still good until April of 2026 and I do not want to upgrade if I > can help it. I am running the same version of Ubuntu under Virtual Box for > work and my work laptop is Windows 10. > > I guess I should store all of my critical data which I have done in the > past and start from scratch to my upgrade to a newer version of LTS. My > work laptop lease rolls every three years so hopefully the IT support folks > give me access my old laptop over our network to copy all of the file for > Virtual Box over to my new laptop. > > Tony > > > On 04/13/2022 8:22 PM Keith Lofstrom <kei...@kl-ic.com> wrote: > > > > > > 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 kei...@keithl.com >
