When to upgrade my 20.04 LTS?

[Liam Proven]

On Tue, 28 Feb 2023 at 11:56, Albert Cornelius
<albert1.cornelius at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Should I wait for the next major LTS in 2024?

You can if you want, but if you do, you'll have to do tghe upgrade to
22.04 in order to get to 24.04 anyway. So why not do it _en route_?

>  Or is it worth it and upgrade to 22.04?

I think it is. YMMV.

> How do you manage your upgrade policy?

I've used Ubuntu from the 1st version. My work machines run LTS
releases, my personal testbed ones run every version.

Ubuntu release numbers aren't really version numbers: they're the date
of release. So Ubuntu 4.10 was v1.0. LTS releases came in with 6.x but
it was late so it was 6.06 not 6.04. But for convenience, I'll call
the number before the period the major version and the one after it
the minor version.

Linux is pretty mature now: the kernel is on v6.x. Ubuntu will be 20
years old when the next LTS version comes out.

Version upgrades were flakey in the single-digit major version era.
Then LTS to LTS updates were a big dicey in the 10x.-15.x era.

I had stuff break when 12.04  came out, and 14.04.

But 16.04 was smooth. I slightly regretted going to 18.04 because
16.04 worked fine and there was nothing new I needed.

However, 18.04 to 20.04 was fine, no problems, and 20.04 to 22.04 was
fine, the smoothest ever.

Mind you I don't use GNOME, so I don't use GNOME extensions, and they
_do_ break on version updates. I use Unity and it's stable now.

I'd say the bad times are gone, things are stable and smooth now, and
you're pretty safe. I would wait for the xx.04.1 release at the
earliest, but then, it's safe to do it. You won't get offered it
before then anyway.

If you want a newer kernel and the HWE stack you could wait for xx.04.2.

But it's been fine for at least 4-5 years now and I have had _zero_
problems or breaking issues on half a dozen machines.

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