Well, I’ve been putting this off for almost as long as possible now. So I’d like to ask for any comments or experiences folks here might have had with this upgrade, on a system like mine. I’m using Ubuntu Studio LTS for my “daily driver” in addition to my audio workstation, so if anything happens due to the upgrade I’ll be seriously impacted. I’m trying to anticipate any issues.
I’ll make a backup before attempting the upgrade. Here are my system details. Appreciate any comments or suggestions!
System is a 2014 Lenovo K450e deskside tower that’s still running extremely well
Dual-boot via GRUB with Windows 10. Win 10 is on the original HDD and Ubuntu Studio is on a separate HDD.
Ubuntu Studio 22.04 LTS with KDE Plasma 5.24 installed manually
Kernel version 5.15.0-133-lowlatency (64-bit)
NVidia GeForce GTX 750 running NVidia proprietary driver 390.157
X11
8x Intel Core i7-4790
32 GB RAM
This is exactly what Release Notes are for. You should really check that first. All known issues, and mitigation instructions, are there, and we cannot account for any edge cases that might arise.
Do know that some PPAs and third-party repositories can cause issues with the upgrade, so it’s recommended to remove them and remove any packages from third-party repositories. A good tool for removing PPAs and their packages is ppa-purge which is in the repositories.
Thank you @eeickmeyer. Comments much appreciated. I did indeed check the Release Notes, and while I was concerned for a time that bugs had been discovered in the 22.04 → 24.04 LTS upgrade path, it seems like those have been fixed since 04 Feb.
That said, I don’t see anything in there about NVidia or dual-boot/GRUB and I guess those are my biggest concerns at this time. Any NVidia issues that people are talking about on the web seem related to Wayland, and I’m planning on sticking with X11 for as long as that’s an option.
I don’t have any PPAs configured, but thanks (and @rubi1200 ) for the reminder.
As long as you’re not using Nvidia drivers outside of the repositories, you should be fine. Nvidia’s own repository is known to cause problems as the packages are typically done incorrectly and cause conflicts.
Just an FYI: X11 is still default on 24.04, with Wayland as an option. That changes but only with 24.10+ since KDE Plasma upstream changed to Wayland by default in Plasma 6, so we followed suit. For Plasma 6, any bugs in X11 are no longer addressed by the KDE developers.