Having tried 25.04 as a VM for a few days and finding it to my liking I took the plunge and did a distribution upgrade from the terminal on one of my 24.10 installs.
There were 2GB+ of packages to download and it took some time on a 4G tethered mobile.
I had fully updated my previous install and cleaned the Apt cache before starting. Once all the packages were downloaded and the install started, at the first pause for any confirmation to type Y or N I copied all the packages from the new Apt cache to a folder on a USB flash drive.
Proceeding with the upgrade went smoothly enough and after playing around a bit and updating the system for a couple of days and my USB Apt cache folder i decided to upgrade 4 more installs on various machines. By copying the files from the USB to the Apt cache before upgrading the downloading of packages necessary was quick and used very little data.
I now have 5 Plucky installs fully up to date and am very happy.
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I installed Plucky from 1st ISO (begin November) and reistalled from the following ISO each 10-15 days and never found major problems using Plucky as the first system.
Now writing from Plucky installed from ISO dated Apr 4.
corrado@corrado-n6-pp-0403:~$ inxi -SCGxc
System:
Host: corrado-n6-pp-0403 Kernel: 6.14.0-13-generic arch: x86_64 bits: 64
compiler: gcc v: 14.2.0
Desktop: GNOME v: 48.0 Distro: Ubuntu 25.04 (Plucky Puffin)
CPU:
Info: 6-core model: 11th Gen Intel Core i5-11400 bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Rocket Lake rev: 1 cache: L1: 480 KiB L2: 3 MiB L3: 12 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 800 min/max: 800/4400 cores: 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 800
5: 800 6: 800 7: 800 8: 800 9: 800 10: 800 11: 800 12: 800 bogomips: 62208
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel RocketLake-S GT1 [UHD Graphics 730] vendor: Gigabyte
driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Xe bus-ID: 00:02.0
Device-2: Logitech HD Webcam C615 driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo type: USB
bus-ID: 1-6:3
Display: wayland server: X.Org v: 24.1.6 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.6
compositor: gnome-shell driver: dri: iris gpu: i915
resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: iris,swrast platforms:
active: gbm,wayland,x11,surfaceless,device inactive: N/A
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: intel mesa v: 25.0.3-1ubuntu1
glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel Graphics (RKL GT1)
Info: Tools: api: eglinfo,glxinfo x11: xdriinfo, xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
corrado@corrado-n6-pp-0403:~$
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