Downgrade to 20.04

[always-the-noob]

I just recently installed 21.10 (by accident). I was getting ready to download 20.04, and my young son came in and distracted me. When he finally left I guess I just clicked the wrong download, and didn't even pay attention until after it was installed and I had set up the pc, and then restarted a few days later. I just blew it off right then, saying I would get back to it when I could. At this point I really don't want to start over completely, but I do want to get on the LTS. At the moment I'm still dual booting, with all the "Home" folders on a separate shared partition, I don't care what anyone says it's not easy getting the two OS's to cooperate on sharing files. Windows does not like to let go of ownership. It's still not working like it should.

Anyway back to this problem, is there a way to downgrade releases without just removing and reinstalling Kubuntu?

[claydoh]

No, there is not. However, it might be worth staying where you are, as the next LTS comes out at the end of April anyway.

[always-the-noob]

THanks, I've done enough beta, and alpha testing in my life, I just want something stable for a change Unlike most of my relationships.. LOL

[claydoh]

THanks, I've done enough beta, and alpha testing in my life, I just want something stable for a change Unlike most of my relationships.. LOL

21.10 is in no way alpha or beta, and is as stable as anything, tbh. LTS is not necessarily more stable, just has a longer time before security fixes stop coming, and won't see any major Plasma upgrades. This is both a plus or a minus, depending on one's needs. No new features or UI changes, but also not a whole lot of bug fixes.

[GreyGeek]

What claydoh says, and ... you are only a couple of months (April) away from the next 3-year LTS, so patience may be your virtue.
IF you don't want to do version upgrades or fresh installs you can always use a rolling release like KDE Neon User Edition. Just saying.

[joneall]

I have a similar problem -- for entirely different reasons. My system was running 5.11.0-44, but after installing the latest fixes, I now boot to 5.4.0-99. Ok, 99>44, but 11>4. So have I gone back to an earlier system. Currently, I see this

$ ll /boot/vml*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       24 févr.  8 12:22 /boot/vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-5.4.0-99-generic
-rw------- 1 root root 11746656 déc.  14 16:23 /boot/vmlinuz-5.11.0-44-generic
-rw------- 1 root root 11746784 janv.  7 00:27 /boot/vmlinuz-5.11.0-46-generic
-rw------- 1 root root 10161824 janv. 14 00:50 /boot/vmlinuz-5.13.0-27-generic
-rw------- 1 root root 10170592 janv. 19 14:43 /boot/vmlinuz-5.13.0-28-generic
-rw------- 1 root root 13656320 nov.  26 15:45 /boot/vmlinuz-5.4.0-92-generic
-rw------- 1 root root 13656320 janv.  7 00:07 /boot/vmlinuz-5.4.0-94-generic
-rw------- 1 root root 13656320 janv. 12 17:22 /boot/vmlinuz-5.4.0-96-generic
-rw------- 1 root root 13660416 janv. 13 19:04 /boot/vmlinuz-5.4.0-97-generic
-rw------- 1 root root 13660416 févr.  2 17:23 /boot/vmlinuz-5.4.0-99-generic
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       25 févr.  8 12:22 /boot/vmlinuz.old -> vmlinuz-5.13.0-28-generic

I have never understood what these version numbers refer to.

[always-the-noob]

21.10 is in no way alpha or beta, and is as stable as anything, tbh. LTS is not necessarily more stable, just has a longer time before security fixes stop coming, and won't see any major Plasma upgrades. This is both a plus or a minus, depending on one's needs. No new features or UI changes, but also not a whole lot of bug fixes.

Last time I used Linux, you had your LTS which was stable for 3-5 years, then there was the other version, which was, well I don't remember if they called it a alpha/beta test, new features and kernels, and such were added every few months, and half the time it wasn't stable. I was just going by how it was back then. At least most of the distro's I tried were set up that way, maybe not all of them.

[always-the-noob]

What claydoh says, and ... you are only a couple of months (April) away from the next 3-year LTS, so patience may be your virtue.
IF you don't want to do version upgrades or fresh installs you can always use a rolling release like KDE Neon User Edition. Just saying.

It's not that I mind doing upgrades, I'm just used to Linux that doesn't say LTS, being unstable, and Windows is the same way. I used to enjoy repairing an OS when an upgrade broke something. Just not now.

[jlittle]

LTS is not necessarily more stable

I agree. I like to put it that LTS versions become more stable. If one wants stability, one waits for an LTS point release, such as 22.04.1.

[claydoh]

I agree. I like to put it that LTS versions become more stable. If one wants stability, one waits for an LTS point release, such as 22.04.1.

Yup, this is usually when Ubuntu switches on the upgrade notifications for LTS to LTS upgrades, and is also when some derivatives like KDE Neon start migrating to it as a base.