I highly recommend just taking the updates and installing them. LTS releases for desktop usage are just ways to sign yourself up to not have bugfixes for Gnome

I highly recommend just taking the updates and installing them. LTS releases for desktop usage are just ways to sign yourself up to not have bugfixes for Gnome for 2+ years. At least in my experience, each Ubuntu release has less crashes and just has improved usability over the past N years (N being large, but less than "Gnome 2 -> Gnome 3/Unity").