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I have made it a custom to stay one release behind with Ubuntu Desktop. When the next version is released (11.04?) I'll upgrade to 10.10. For servers I only use

• acqq 16y ago
  It can be a good recipe if you just need the system that works and if everything was already working. However, on my computers, on the hardware side, I always expected the improvements of the new version. Then I've discovered that simple upgrades can even break the software side of the distro (the interaction between their own parts), as it seems that the upgrades are not enough tested compared to the clean installs. I've found that it's much more probable to have everything working correctly if I just keep the home partition but install the new release from the scratch. But this is also more work than it's convenient, for doing every six months. Additionally, I've found that security updates are still behaving better when run from the console than from the GUI. It shouldn't be so. The GUI updates should not be so annoying and attention consuming but really do things in the background.