I had laptop running Ubuntu 16.04, which was running for 2273 days without reboots or anything. It was located in safe place so not even security updates were installed during that time. And it was still completely fine after all these days (little bit over 6 years). It was finally shut down when there was electricity break, and its battery failed, and I decided that it was time to retire it.

There of course were tons of updates available then, but no one forces you to install them. and in Debian system instead of Ubuntu, there will be lot less, their release policy is much stricter.

Have you ever upgraded the Ubuntu laptop? Cause that’s my main gripe with Ubuntu. Server upgrades work, desktop upgrades never did for me.

I wonder about this. I have been running Ubuntu on one of my laptops for years, and updated it several times withouth hitch. All the way from around 18.10 to 22.04 (non-lts, so I upgraded to every release) until the laptop was replaced.

Usually the breakage happens if one has tons of shitty third-party repos and thus will get package conflicts when upgrading. And those are solved by removing/replacing all software installed from those repos and then after upgrade reinstalling them again if needed.

They are still on the ship, and cannot get to land because of the lack of visas.

Do you mean upgrade or reinstall?

I have done release upgrades in multiple occasions all the way from 16.04 -> 18.04 -> 20.04 -> 22.04 -> 24.04. Usually they work fine, but of course back up your stuff first. When doing it with release-upgrade all your stuff is of course kept just like before.

Basically just:

sudo apt update

sudo apt dist-upgrade

sudo reboot

sudo do-release-upgrade

This will upgrade to 22.04. After upgrade just repeat process to upgrade to 24.04

The C64 Mini and C64 Maxi are readily available today and affordably priced, making spare parts easily accessible.

If those work well enough for them, I cannot see any benefit of upgrading.

Can you access your wan ip when you are somewhere else than on your own lan?

If not, then this is probably just that your router does firewalling and nat is such order that you can access admin interface from local network via wan address.

If yes, then router has some serious misconfiguration.

Blog makes valid point, but why on earth there would be any current Linux distribution without usr merge?

EDIT: Especially when every major Linux distributions have already implemented usr merge long time ago.