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   Stephen Sekula (steve@mastodon.cooleysekula.net)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 04:52:31 JST Stephen Sekula

   Upgrades were dicey this time, but they are done. No more OS upgrades for a couple of years ... yay!

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     Stephen Sekula (steve@mastodon.cooleysekula.net)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 05:35:56 JST Stephen Sekula

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     • Matthew Feickert

     @matthewfeickert No. I don't have any regrets. But I was definitely not expecting my desktop upgrade to get messed up because NetworkManager somehow got uninstalled, disabling all internet devices and breaking all remaining downloads. I had to put all the NM Debian packages on a thumb drive to get them installed and restore network connectivity.

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     Matthew Feickert (matthewfeickert@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 05:35:57 JST Matthew Feickert

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     @steve Anything that you’ve experienced so far that makes you wish you had not updated to the latest Ubuntu _just_ yet, or would you say only positives?

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     Matthew Feickert (matthewfeickert@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 10:28:00 JST Matthew Feickert

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     @steve Thanks, that's good to know. I might still wait for some long stretch of vacation so that if I end up needing to do a clean install it won't be too disruptive. I've become slightly more reserved in my OS upgrade schedule since I was a grad student. :P

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     Stephen Sekula (steve@mastodon.cooleysekula.net)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 10:28:00 JST Stephen Sekula

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     • Matthew Feickert

     @matthewfeickert Ditto. These days, I always wait until at least the .1 or .2 Ubuntu LTS before I leap. And even then …