Ideally, without snide remarks like 'he must want it to fail' that assume I'm just trolling AskUbuntu instead of that I'm just not a guru at this (and don't want to have to be to use my computer without letting Microsoft decide they have to upgrade it when I'm in the middle of something).Īddressing some of the question, but also some of the comments on the question here. I admit, it hadn't occurred to me that the examples I gave aren't fully explained - my upgrade process wasn't primarily a 'product line' jump rather that occurred after, the first time, being advised against even trying to upgrade (and in response to what I then perceived as immaturity of the Plasma 5 desktop), and the second time, after a failed attempt to upgrade MATE 16.04 which was already EOL.Įnd result, however, I'm still trying to ask how to improve the odds of not spending an entire weekend 'upgrading' my system.

While I was still proofreading the question for the second time, I got two comments that more or less amounted to 'you're trying to do the impossible and you can't depend on the upgrade process.'

I tried to ask a question about how to improve my odds with 'upgrade' process (hoping to save a weekend doing a clean install when it's time to upgrade).

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