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Actually, while I'm here, though, I had an odd thing happen to me the other day that might be a cautionary tale.

I have a handful of computers, and they're all for different things. I have a Windows 10 PC I use for Windows-only apps, a Raspberry Pi running Volumio as a media player, a System76 laptop that currently runs PopOs!, an old HP laptop that runs Windows 11, and a big beefy PC that runs #Ubuntu for my file backup/Docker host. And, of course, my Windows 11 work laptop.

The System76 laptop is my main personal driver, but I'm busy enough that I only log into it once a week or so. There were so many things that needed to update each time I logged on (Discord, for one), that I got into the (bad?) habit of running this command every time I logged in after a while:

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade && sudo apt dist-upgrade && sudo autoremove && sudo reboot

Worked fine for a few months. Then one day, I logged in an hour before my DND game, ran that command, and... my laptop wouldn't boot.