I am using Lubuntu 19.04 and am very pleased with the speed and performance however support has now ceased for this iteration. The question is should I go back to Lubuntu 18, as suggested, or switch to Ubuntu. My PC is a virtually new HP Pavilion with plenty of grunt.
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5Does this answer your question? What's the difference between a Long Term Support Release and a Normal Release? and Will ESM also become available for Ubuntu 14.04? – karel Feb 04 '20 at 00:25
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4Seeing as you are on 19.04 now, it makes more sense to upgrade to 19.10. To go back to 18.04 would probably consist of a reinstall, with a possibly loss of data if you don't have backups. Can also upgrade to 20.04 from 19.10 and then stay on that. – crip659 Feb 04 '20 at 00:47
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Just update to whatever you are prompted to. Next time you reinstall from scratch pick a LTS version. – Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen Feb 04 '20 at 10:45
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https://askubuntu.com/questions/270529/why-did-canonical-reduce-ubuntus-non-lts-support-time-to-9-months states "Very few end users depend on 18 months support for interim releases. " That is Canonical's official stance on the short life of interim (i.e., non-LTS) releases,, from 2013. – K7AAY Feb 04 '20 at 17:19
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http://ubuntu-news.org/2020/01/23/ubuntu-19-04-disco-dingo-end-of-life-reached-on-january-23-2020/
https://lubuntu.me/lubuntu-19-04-end-of-life-and-current-support-statuses/
From the Lubuntu EOL message is
Lubuntu 19.04 End of Life and Current Support Statuses
Lubuntu 19.04 (Disco Dingo) will reach End of Life on Thursday, January 23, 2020. This means that after that date there will be no further security updates or bugfixes released. We highly recommend that you update to 19.10 as soon as possible if you are still running 19.04. After January 23rd, the only supported releases of Lubuntu will be 18.04, with LXDE, and 19.10, with LXQt. All other releases of Lubuntu will be considered unsupported, and will no longer receive any further updates from the Lubuntu team.
You can find instructions on how to upgrade your Lubuntu installation here at our manual page.
You'll also note later in the reference, the reason I'd suggest not returning to Lubuntu 18.04 LTS, ie.
Note, due to the extensive changes required for the shift in desktop environments, the Lubuntu team does not support upgrading from 18.04 or below to any greater release. Doing so will result in a broken system. If you are on 18.04 or below and would like to upgrade, please do a fresh install. The installation image can be obtained from our downloads page.
I would strongly recommend the upgrade to 19.10, providing a path to move to Lubuntu 20.04 LTS currently in development.
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1fyi: @K7AAY I'm not adding this answer because there is anything wrong with your answer, I wanted to include the Lubuntu specific references/details – guiverc Feb 04 '20 at 01:45
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1If you go back to Lubuntu 18.04 LTS (we're QA-testing the 18.04.4 ISO's currently; the i386 on the machine to my left is mid-install), you'll have support until April-2021 (3 years from April-2018), where as the 19.10 will upgrade to 20.04 which has 3 years just for starters.. ie. a much longer support path without the hassle of re-installs... – guiverc Feb 04 '20 at 02:00
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As an unlikely aside; if your system was x86 (32-bit) which officially was never released, though ISOs were produced for x86 Lubuntu & Xubuntu for the first third of the release cycle, thus upgrades were generated & available. There is however no 19.04 to 19.10 upgrade possible. That was disabled a few days before 19.10's release. In this circumstance I'd recommend re-installing a 18.04 system as its supported. – guiverc Feb 10 '20 at 00:13
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Neither. You do not need to reinstall Lubuntu 18.04 or start over with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, because you can upgrade to Lubuntu 19.10, which is very easy, and fully supported.
This is a general solution for all users of Ubuntu, Lubuntu, Kubuntu, and other supported Ubuntu flavours.
sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgrade
sudo apt install update-manager-core
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For reference only, if performing an upgrade from an LTS version (not the case here), also do
sudo nano /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades
On the file's last line, change the value of Prompt from lts to normal .
Save the edit with Ctrl-O, then press Enter to confirm and exit with Ctrl-X.
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Either way, continue with do-release-upgrade .
When it completes, reboot, and run lsb_release -a to confirm 19.10 is installed OK.
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4Why are the last 2 steps required? Wouldn't it be
normalby default if the OP is already on 19.04 (19.04 was not an LTS release)? – Dan Feb 04 '20 at 09:48 -
You mean "at the last line of the file, change the value of Prompt from lts to normal ." and not the last two steps "When it completes, reboot, and run lsb_release -a to confirm 19.10 is installed OK." ? You are technically correct, but sooner or later someone here will use this for an LTS, so I am just belt-and-suspendering this. – K7AAY Feb 04 '20 at 17:11
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Yes sorry, I meant to say the last 2 commands regarding the installation of
update-manager-coreand editing the/etc/update-manager/release-upgradesfile. – Dan Feb 05 '20 at 08:19