When to upgrade my 20.04 LTS?

[Jeffery Small]

Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> writes:

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

18.04 was the first release where I decided to stop bi-annual updates and
just jump from one LTS to the next.

I'll not contest the major stability point being made here, but I would
offer that, using Xubuntu, multi-screen multi-desktop operation in 18.04
that was working beautifully, was completely lost in the upgrade to 20.04,
not just for me, but others as well.  It has never been restored and I have
had to adjust to a handicapped workaround.

I had the worst upgrade of my life going from 20.04 to 22.04 because I was
using legacy network configuration which was not preserved during the
upgrade process. [Netplan was apparently simply assumed!]  This means
that my network was lost part way through the upgrade which then failed
in disastrous ways as you can imagine.  There was no clear indication of
what was wrong and tracking down the source of the problem was extremely
difficult without access to the web.  Ultimately, I had to install Xubuntu
on a laptop and then research the problem from there.  Until I tracked down
and fixed the problem, there was no LAN and required files and software
packages had to be transferred to the broken machine using a thumb drive!
It wasn't pretty.

>From what I read, I'm sure that the upgrade process is pretty clean for
most people, but there can still be surprises.

Regards,
-- 
Jeffery Small