Should do-release-upgrade upgrade from 18.04 LTS to 20.04 yet?

[Liam Proven]

On Fri, 28 Aug 2020 at 12:03, Sheemon Lists <sheemon.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> If this is an old, settled argument, please tell me & I will shut up:

Er, well, it is not clear to me what your argument is, so it is hard
to say, but nothing in your email is hard to answer.

> If you are interested in an {old,new}comer opinion, tell me.

Based on this, not very, to be honest!

> Please spare me the holy wars, though.  I am too old for those.

Then why are you trying to start one? You do not have a technical
question, nor are you offering assistance. You appeared to join
someone else's thread merely to complain.

> Briefly:
>
> *  Severely broken

20.04 is not broken. I am running it on several machines. It is
working well. If you have *specific* issues, then start your own email
threads about them. As a general allegation, this is false.

> *  Poorly [if at all] documented

It is as well-documented as any previous release of Ubuntu. If you
want comprehensive documentation on an enterprise distribution, I
suggest that you come over and try SUSE Linux Enterprise. :-) It is my
job to ensure that that is fully and exhaustively documented.

> *  Unsustainable in large configurations

As Ubuntu is the most widely-used distribution it is, I think this is
readily falsified.

> *  Yes, most these can be attributed to 18.04 (are they always .04?
>     Is this some magic I missed?)

Apparently, yes, there are at least 2 things.

[1] Ubuntu was originally a desktop distro only, and it only shipped
with GNOME 2 when it was new. GNOME 2 had a 6-month release cycle. New
Ubuntu releases followed the latest GNOME release shortly afterwards,
to allow the Ubuntu developers a little time to integrate the new
GNOME 2 release and test it. The Ubuntu version number is [year] dot
[month]: so 18.04 came out in April 2018.

[2] It is not "always .04". It is always _even-numbered year_ dot 04.
LTS releases are in Spring every _other_ year. There has only been a
single exception: Dapper Drake was 6.06 as it took an extra couple of
months to stabilise the first-ever LTS release.

> Can I sustain these allegations?  Oh, yes.  Dozens and dozens of notes.

So share them instead of empty complaints.

> My horrible accusations are based on Kubuntu 20.04, desktop edition.

2 observations:
• you have not made a single *specific* accusation
• you are not using the standard mainstream distro; you are using a
remix. Therefore, your complaints would be better-addressed to the
mailing list or forum of that remix, not the mainstream one.
Mainstream Ubuntu Desktop uses GNOME 3, and Ubuntu Server has no
desktop.

Personally, I dislike KDE 5 *and* GNOME 3, so I do not use either.

If, as it seems, you are a KDE enthusiast, then I suggest that you
switch to a KDE-centric distro. Candidates:
• KDE Neon is KDE's showcase and is based on Ubuntu LTS.
• All the fragments of the Mandriva distro (Mageia, OpenMandriva &
ROSA Linux) are KDE-centric.
• So is PCLinuxOS.
• So is OpenSUSE, arguably.

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