alt Hacker NewsThat can't be literally true, no release of Ubuntu is still getting updates after 18 years. At some point you have to upgrade to the next release, and that's not quite as simple.
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LetsGetTechnicl • last Monday at 6:25 PM
The laptop is 18 years old, Ubuntu was installed in 2017.
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pawelduda • last Tuesday at 9:51 AM
The laptop started with Windows 7 (the best one btw). Switch to Ubuntu was done years later when I handed it over to my parents.
You are right about the Ubuntu upgrades though. Over these years I'd just randomly press update to get out of EoL'd versions when I was around. I think I just went over 4 major versions in a few hours. It just downloaded, installed and restarted without any problems. One outlier was an issue with nvidia driver packages after update, for which I had to consult google.
The 'upgrade to next version of ubuntu' has gotten pretty good these days.
The only thing I would make sure to do is to have a separate home partition / volume so if you had to blow the underlying OS away after a botched upgrade, it's easily doable.
For the life of me I don't understand why having a separate area for your personal files isn't the default on every OS. Just pick a reasonable size for the OS part (20-30G?) and give the rest to /home