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Should I upgrade to Mint 21 Vanessa?
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It's possible for an upgrade to break things and leave your system in an unusable state or cause your data to be lost.
However, that could happen at any time with no warning. Your hard drive could break, your charger could cause a short, your laptop could get stolen. If you have any files you don't want to lose, I'd strongly recommend you set up a backup asap.
In terms of whether to actually upgrade, Mint 20.3 stops receiving security updates in April so you should probably upgrade to 21 sometime before then.
Thank you for your reply, the end of security updates is one of my main concerns indeed