On 12/28, Simon Albrecht wrote:
I want to spend as little time as possible on maintaining/upgrading
the OS. So I’m reluctant to ditch 16.04 just yet. Should I bite the
bullet and take the time to install 18.04?
18.04 has been out long enough that major bugs should have been worked
out by now. Do you mostly stick to packages in the repo, or do you
often install third party packages? The distro I use is Ubuntu-based,
and when I recently upgraded from 16.04 to 18.04 the only problems I ran
into were related to packages I had compiled from source and needed to
recompile against the upgraded system libraries. You may also run into
issues if you have many PPAs added. Otherwise, the upgrade should be
pretty smooth.
Does it make sense to skip 18 and wait for 20.04 in April?
I think for the smoothest upgrade process, upgrade to 18.04 and resolve
any issues that arise first, and then upgrade to 20.04 and resolve any
new issues. The more things break at once, the harder it will be to
troubleshoot them. You might also want to wait until 20.04 has been out
for a few months before you upgrade from 18.04 to 20.04.