Is it a good idea to install 21.04 of a Thinkpad T420?

[Liam Proven]

On Tue, 28 Sept 2021 at 10:01, Phil <phillor9 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> My previous thread dealt with a heat problem cause by an extremely slow
> Internet connection.

That's a leap for which we never established a causal connection.

I do not think the speed of the Internet connection _caused_ the overheating.

More likely is that the fans in a decade-old laptop are getting
clogged up with dust.


> Liam mentioned that he uses XFCE on his T420 and this has got me
> thinking and now I'm wondering about the wisdom of replacing my 20.10
> Kubuntu installation with Xubuntu 21.04. However, I'm concerned about
> Canonical's warning about not upgrading to 21.04. I really don't want to
> boot into a black screen.

So, do a side-by-side install.

Are you booting in UEFI or MBR mode? In the latter case it's no
problem to have 2 different versions of Ubuntu, even sharing a /home
partition. I do this routinely and have for about 20 years now.

> I'm in the process of downloading Xubuntu 21.04 while I have a
> reasonably fast Internet connection. So, I'm wondering if other Thinkpad
> T420 owners have installed version 21.04 without any problems?

I haven't, but I can probably give it a try...

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