Huh, you’re right. I swear I looked that up before, I musta saw the x20
release date or something. So much for the “my laptop is 20 years old and
I need to upgrade” excuse I used. 11 years old is still pretty old…. And
thanks to whoever sold me that thing from this list, it has served me well,
Thank you for the replies. My main takeaway is do the
major LTS upgrades "rapidly-sequentially": for example,
make a one week "pit stop" at 24.04 while upgrading
from 22.04 to 26.04 .
Practically speaking, re-learning Linux system details
takes a few weeks for me, even with copious notes from
On Thu, Apr 14, 2022, 13:47 Nat Taylor wrote:
> 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.
> .
I understand what you are saying, BUT, as former
On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 10:12 AM Ben Koenig
wrote:
> Original Message
> On Apr 14, 2022, 7:34 AM, Robert Citek < robert.ci...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 12:52 AM TomasK
> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2022-04-13 at 20:22 -0700, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> > > Questions for
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
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
> Is it a good idea to keep upgrading? That is another question -
> probably not a good idea to keep doing it. This and many other forums
> are full of horror stories about dealing with the accumulated config
> junk left over from the dist upgrades.
but there are also horror stories of migrating
On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 12:52 AM TomasK
wrote:
> On Wed, 2022-04-13 at 20:22 -0700, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> > Questions for you folks with years of Ubuntu experience:
> >
> > 1) How easy/fraught is a dist-upgrade, say 16.04 to 20.04?
> >
> It is easy to go from one LTS to the next: 16.04 -->
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.
Questions for you folks with years of Ubuntu experience:
1) How easy/fraught is a
On Wed, 2022-04-13 at 20:22 -0700, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> Questions for you folks with years of Ubuntu experience:
>
> 1) How easy/fraught is a dist-upgrade, say 16.04 to 20.04?
>
It is easy to go from one LTS to the next: 16.04 --> 18.04 --> 20.04
Is it a good idea to keep upgrading? That is
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