09-12-2024, 09:45 AM
I installed Ubuntu 24.04.1 on my "production" laptop using Ubuntu's upgrade method. Success! Details follow. I did this to see how their upgrade process works. Normally, I would have done a "from scratch" installation, and I still might.
Hardware: Dell Latitude E5420 (from ComputerCorps); i5 CPU; 8GB memory; 128GB SSD. For this process, I used a wired connection and disabled wi-fi on the laptop.
Hearing Steve's voice in my head, I copied about 18 gigs of my user files onto a USB external hard drive. Painless, but took about 20 minutes.
Started with a standard update, and when that completed, I saw a prompt to upgrade to 24.04.1 and a warning that it could take several hours.
Clicked OK, and it downloaded over 2000 files, then warned me to disable screen lock before continuing. It took about five minutes to remember how to do that, then clicked OK again.
It whirled around for about 40 minutes, then asked to be restarted. Did that, and everything came up, and et voila, Ubuntu 24.04.1 with 6.8.0.44 kernel running.
Elapsed time, including the file backup, about 90 minutes.
The good news is that all of my user files were intact, and did some very simple functionally tests: checked wired and wi-fi connectivity; opened Firefox and Brave; opened a set of PDFs; exercised LibreOffice; loaded and ran a DVD to verify audio and video (via VideoLAN and did not need to re-add the DVD codec trick).
At this moment, I'm comfortable using it as my "daily driver", and seems to works slightly better than 22.04.
Best...Brew
Hardware: Dell Latitude E5420 (from ComputerCorps); i5 CPU; 8GB memory; 128GB SSD. For this process, I used a wired connection and disabled wi-fi on the laptop.
Hearing Steve's voice in my head, I copied about 18 gigs of my user files onto a USB external hard drive. Painless, but took about 20 minutes.
Started with a standard update, and when that completed, I saw a prompt to upgrade to 24.04.1 and a warning that it could take several hours.
Clicked OK, and it downloaded over 2000 files, then warned me to disable screen lock before continuing. It took about five minutes to remember how to do that, then clicked OK again.
It whirled around for about 40 minutes, then asked to be restarted. Did that, and everything came up, and et voila, Ubuntu 24.04.1 with 6.8.0.44 kernel running.
Elapsed time, including the file backup, about 90 minutes.
The good news is that all of my user files were intact, and did some very simple functionally tests: checked wired and wi-fi connectivity; opened Firefox and Brave; opened a set of PDFs; exercised LibreOffice; loaded and ran a DVD to verify audio and video (via VideoLAN and did not need to re-add the DVD codec trick).
At this moment, I'm comfortable using it as my "daily driver", and seems to works slightly better than 22.04.
Best...Brew
Throwback to the BSD days: Playing with Linux, trying to plan my changes