FYI (because I've been surprised several people I expected to know this didn't recently):
The number versions represent the year and month of the release: 22.04 was released late April 2022. The next stable will come out in late April 2024, and the next, I dunno, Short Term (?) 22.10 release will come out in October.
The non-LTS releases are called 'interim releases'[1]. I snagged the torrents of 22.04 yesterday, upgraded a VM from 21.10 to see how that would go, not terrible, tried a laptop, slightly bumpier, but not too bad. I have a couple of other machines to try (with nvidia GPUs...) so I may wait a bit...
Still remember in 2006, went to a local internet cafe in rural India to fill out the form for requesting Ubuntu on a CD, and weeks or months later postman delivered it. It worked perfectly on the cheap laptop I had, in the first attempt.
The experience is still top notch. Can't thank Ubuntu team enough.
Now I keep a USB stick with Ubuntu image all the time as a Swiss army knife for fixing computers.
Upgraded to it via do-release-upgrade -d and for the most part it went smooth. I had to reinstall pulseaudio and some bluetooth connection profiles as wireless headphones completely broke - they would connect twice in a row with failing audio (thus reinstall pulseaudio), then at some point, they wouldn't connect at all (thus reinstall bluetooth connection profile).
Previous upgrades didn't had such problems. This with the KDE desktop on a desktop machine running old Ryzen.
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[ 4.6 ms ] story [ 35.1 ms ] threadThe number versions represent the year and month of the release: 22.04 was released late April 2022. The next stable will come out in late April 2024, and the next, I dunno, Short Term (?) 22.10 release will come out in October.
1: https://ubuntu.com/about/release-cycle
The experience is still top notch. Can't thank Ubuntu team enough.
Now I keep a USB stick with Ubuntu image all the time as a Swiss army knife for fixing computers.
Previous upgrades didn't had such problems. This with the KDE desktop on a desktop machine running old Ryzen.
The year of the Linux desktop is still a ways off.