Upgrade from 17.04 advice

[Fintan]

After upgrading from 17.04 I had an issue with screen flickering, locked desktop, slow desktop or even crashes of apps and the desktop.

After rebooting into a live usb i solved this issue(s) by going /home/myuser and renaming .config and .kde to something like .kde_old and .config_old.

Now the system is working fine again.

I hope this helps anyone with the same issues.

[oshunluvr]

Obviously, some older config file conflicted with the new version. This is why many of us don't do version upgrades, we do a fresh install instead.

[GreyGeek]

Exactly.
Experience has taught me that the best way to do a version upgrade is to do a fresh install, after backing up my important data, of course.

[claydoh]

nah, I just go for it. My desktop PC has a dead power supply fan, and really is on its last legs but I think I want to keep it going as the drive in it goes all the way back to Raring, and maybe further, doing 6 month upgrades up to 17.04. Zero reinstalls.

[dequire]

nah, I just go for it. My desktop PC has a dead power supply fan, and really is on its last legs but I think I want to keep it going as the drive in it goes all the way back to Raring, and maybe further, doing 6 month upgrades up to 17.04. Zero reinstalls.

Shows your true sadistic side, that right there!

[acheron]

nah, I just go for it. My desktop PC has a dead power supply fan, and really is on its last legs but I think I want to keep it going as the drive in it goes all the way back to Raring, and maybe further, doing 6 month upgrades up to 17.04. Zero reinstalls.

nah, just switch your sources.list to the development version at the start of each 6 months, and roll with it.

[mr_raider]

Doesn't 17.10 move to wayland? That's a major overhaul under the hood, no?

[acheron]

Doesn't 17.10 move to wayland? That's a major overhaul under the hood, no?

Not by default for Kubuntu.

[claydoh]

Shows your true sadistic side, that right there!

Actually, no. Other than having to remove unused kernel/header packages once as I ran out of inodes, it has been smooth sailing, pretty much.

[claydoh]

nah, just switch your sources.list to the development version at the start of each 6 months, and roll with it.

That's how I used to run my daily driver laptop, pre-Neon.
Actually, that is how I ran Kubuntu on my laptops du jour going back to the first Plasma 4 versions. I had just got hold of a hand-me-down Pentium M laptop, so of course that is the day the PC I had decided to die out on me. And double-of-course the only bootable disk I had was one of the earliest daily 8.10 images. It was......usable, but i never went back to running normal, official release material

Doing official upgrades on stock releases is probably more daring, but I am probably just lucky.