When should I upgrade

[stan]

On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 01:01:43PM +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
> On 1 May 2011 21:03, Soare Catalin <lolinux.soare at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I would like to ask for a recommendation on this subject.
> >
> > I have performed an upgrade on my laptop from 10.10 to 11.4 a few weeks ago,
> > and, to be honest I did not like it at all. Unity lacked the customization I
> > got used to ever since I started using Linux, and it still seems to still
> > lack them (someone please correct me if I'm wrong).
> > Thing is that I removed it and done a fresh install of 10.10.
> >
> > So my question is:
> > (I didn't know that LTS has a 2 years cicle so) for how long can I stay with
> > 10.10?
> > Or what would the alternatives be in this case? (I wouldn't upgrade too
> > soon...)
> 
> Please bottom-post.
> 
> LTS releases "live" for 3y on the desktop and 5y on the server.
> 
> Ordinary releases "live" 18mth.
> 
> 10.10 reaches end-of-life with 12.04, the next LTS release.
> 10.04, on the other hand, will live until 2013.
> 
> My recommendation is either to upgrade to each release, but leave it a
> month or so for the early-adopters to find the bugs, or to stay on
> LTS.
> 
> I always get impatient with LTS releases - after a year or so, I want
> the new features and the new toys. So I upgrade and every 2 or 3
> upgrades I wipe and reformat.
> 

Why the wipe and reformat at all?

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