Recommended time to upgrade (Kubuntu)?

[Sarra]

Running 22.04 on my server/media PC, and I'd like to keep running Kubuntu LTS; should I upgrade now, or wait and upgrade later?

[Sauron]

You can do whichever is most convenient to you, if you have no specific reason to wait you might as well upgrade to 24.04 now. 22.04 is supported for another year though so there's no rush.

[Levent]

you still got 2 years and 10 months imo. I have upgraded couple of 18.04 LTS vms last month lol.

https://endoflife.date/ubuntu

[Nayr438]

I wouldn't be in any rush, 22.04 is still supported until Apr 2027 without a subscription and 24.04 has had kind of a buggy launch, id personally wait a couple months.
Kubuntu 24.04 LTS didn't even get Plasma 6 into it's release so your not missing out on much.

[Alex Atkin UK]

14 minutes ago, Nayr438 said:

I wouldn't be in any rush, 22.04 is still supported until Apr 2027 without a subscription and 24.04 has had kind of a buggy launch, id personally wait a couple months.
Kubuntu 24.04 LTS didn't even get Plasma 6 into it's release so your not missing out on much.

That's probably a good thing.  From what I've been hearing Plasma 6 is far from stable.  Lots of people talk as if its not a big deal, but I've not had a Plasma 5 crash in literally years so in no rush to lose stability.

[Nayr438]

13 minutes ago, Alex Atkin UK said:

That's probably a good thing.  From what I've been hearing Plasma 6 is far from stable.  Lots of people talk as if its not a big deal, but I've not had a Plasma 5 crash in literally years so in no rush to lose stability.

I've actually had the opposite experience. Plasma 6 has been more stable than 5.27, It also introduced the xwayland video bridge and compositor crash recovery.
I will note that I do use Arch with a AMD/Intel GPU and have been using Wayland for a couple years so idk what the experience is like outside of that.

[wasab]

Personally, I would upgrade when it is at the end of its support life. 

[Sarra]

1 hour ago, Nayr438 said:

I wouldn't be in any rush, 22.04 is still supported until Apr 2027 without a subscription and 24.04 has had kind of a buggy launch, id personally wait a couple months.
Kubuntu 24.04 LTS didn't even get Plasma 6 into it's release so your not missing out on much.

This is the information I was hoping for, so yes, I'll wait a little bit before I upgrade to 24.04, thank you. :3

[Alex Atkin UK]

1 hour ago, Nayr438 said:

I've actually had the opposite experience. Plasma 6 has been more stable than 5.27, It also introduced the xwayland video bridge and compositor crash recovery.
I will note that I do use Arch with a AMD/Intel GPU and have been using Wayland for a couple years so idk what the experience is like outside of that.

I've mostly been reading about NVIDIA and Apple Silicon, I guess it makes sense that those GPU drivers are a tad more rough.

 

I think I also saw mention Plasma 6 is less stable on Xorg, and given I run several virtual tigervnc sessions this sounded problematic.

[Sarra]

8 hours ago, Alex Atkin UK said:

I've mostly been reading about NVIDIA and Apple Silicon, I guess it makes sense that those GPU drivers are a tad more rough.

 

I think I also saw mention Plasma 6 is less stable on Xorg, and given I run several virtual tigervnc sessions this sounded problematic.

For my own personal use case, I'm going to be using all AMD for the CPU and GPU, and no need for Xorg.

 

I'm also considering a switch up of my CPU, going from a 5950X to a 5800X3D, and the R9 can live in my editing righ/server/media PC.

[Nayr438]

14 hours ago, Alex Atkin UK said:

 think I also saw mention Plasma 6 is less stable on Xorg, and given I run several virtual tigervnc sessions this sounded problematic.

Do be aware that Ubuntu 24.04 may be the last LTS version to ship xorg-server and support the X11 session.

[Alex Atkin UK]

42 minutes ago, Nayr438 said:

Do be aware that Ubuntu 24.04 may be the last LTS version to ship xorg-server and support the X11 session.

I'm actually using Fedora so aware that also will be removing it in the next version and its officially unsupported in current FC40, thus why I'm sticking with FC39 for now.

I don't get how were supposed to use vncserver once X11 support is removed for the major DEs on the distro.  Having to use a different DE is going to really mess up my workflow, I initially did try something more lightweight but it was a frustrating experience.  I've tried looking up information but its all about using VNC on Wayland with a real display, not a virtual one.

 

Although were going rather off topic now which was not my intention.