Ubuntu Mate doese a great job helping beginners to get along.
Especially “Welcome” is very handy and leads through the first steps.
A general problem, at least for me and I wasted a lot of time recently finding an answer,
is how I can upgrade my version of Ubuntu?
As far as I understood, if you are currently on 16.04.1 you will stay on that version with Kernel 4.4
until the end of LTS support
If you want to switch to the Rolling HWE Stack you have do this manually - I still don’t know how.
I only found this https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack for 14.04LTS
but there doesn’t seem to be a explanation for 16.04LTS
Is that command still correct, since they changed the HWE system in 16.04LTS?
Is there no easy way than to search for this non-self explaining command and put it in the terminal?
In the application&update settings there is an option called
“Inform about new ubuntu-versions:” and you can choose between “LTS” and “every new version”
Has this something to do with that topic?
Just in case the only option to upgrade really is to put this horrific command in the terminal,
wouldn’t it be good to put a setting in Ubuntu Mate that makes upgrading more easy?
Maybe you could intergrate an option for that in Welcome or the Software Boutique.
I also have a notebook runnning on 16.10.
How will upgrading 16.10 to 17.04 work? (of course after it has been released in april)
What I found is putting “sudo do-release-upgrade” in terminal. Is that correct?
But still isn’t there like a popup message that says “do you want to upgrade to 17.04 now? YES/NO”
Or are non-LTS version automatically updated/upgraded after 9 month?
I hope so can bring some light into this for me
thanks