Dell XPS 9560 17.10 -> 19.04?

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I have a dell XPS 9560 and running 17.10 without major problems. (Minor hibernate/wake up problems, high battery usage, but nothing super critical)

When I tried to upgrade to 18.04 it all went down the drain: Could not properly shutdown (would crash, reason unknown) or boot into desktop (nvidia driver problem, but I didn't know at that time).

But I thought about upgrading to 19.04 and to save some time I thought about asking here first:

Has anyone experience with 9560 and 19.04? I've read a reddit post, mentioning 9570 and working ok, so I guess 9560 should be ok as well?
Can I upgrade from 17.10 directly to 19.04? What is the best approach for this?

I hope this post is not to open ended.

17.10 went end of life a while ago so questions on that are no longer accepted. My method would be to re-install 19.04. Make a backup of personal data (well, you already should have those) and restore a backup after installing — Rinzwind, Aug 22 '19 at 19:21
Yeah, upgrading that far is not a good idea, I had problems upgrading from 18.04 to 19.04, so you will almost certainly have problems going that far. — warsong, Aug 22 '19 at 19:22
After reading the linked post from @CrashFive I have one question: Is a backup of /home enough? It is on a different partition, so theoretically be save during a clean installation - right? — morpheus05, Aug 22 '19 at 19:58
I came across this page that might provide some insight into your question. AskUbuntu - Question from 4 months ago — CrashFive, Aug 22 '19 at 19:52
morpheus05: You can upgrade in two steps, as detailed in the second and third sections of my answer to How can I upgrade from 17.04 to the latest non-LTS Ubuntu?. @warsong Going from 18.04 to 19.04 is supposed to work, as they're supported releases and the one in between is EOL. It worked for me both times I tested it, though one of the times I had trouble in the preceding upgrade from 17.10 to 18.04 (but that was simple to fix, see the first linked post if interested). — Eliah Kagan, Aug 26 '19 at 15:35

Dell XPS 9560 17.10 -> 19.04?

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