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 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. Trying to be data driven and unbiased - You can count number of John's emails related to config/behavior issues versus any other Ubuntu from scratch issues. You can do the same on Ubuntu forums - it ain't pretty. I value my time, sanity and opportunity to learn new stuff as well as to test backup and my install notes/automation - So, I install from scratch. I first install in a VM to update and verify my install flow, then on a test machine - then I deploy it everywhere. There is plenty of support overlap to do that at my own pace. Of course different people do/value things differently, Tomas
