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I'm on Ubuntu Studio 24.04.3 LTS (Noble). I chose this over the newer 25.04 (Plucky Puffin) since 24 has support through 2027, and 25 only has it until Jan 2026. I figured this was the smarter move.

However, as was mentioned by one of you lovely people in my last post, some of my issues may be fixed in 25.04. My taskbar just froze up, and I found a sort of fix to restart Plasma, and it was mentioned this is fixed in Plasma 6, which is in 25.04. That said, I'm terrified of ruining everything haha, so I have more questions:

1: I'm assuming (hoping) this wouldn't be a full wipe and start over? It should just upgrade right?

2: Do I need to do the whole USB route, and if so is there an option to keep everything (I'm hoping, I put a LOT of work into this so far and I don't remember if that was an option on first install).

3: I remember a few apps I installed were specific to Noble, will this break those apps?

4: It seems like there should be an option to upgrade from the desktop, but I don't have that option. If I run

plasma-distro-release-notifier

I should get an update notification right? In which case I can just say "hell yeah!" and it'll do its thing?

I really appreciate all of you, you've made a super stressful experience slightly less stressful so cheers to you all!

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[-] BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com 4 points 10 hours ago

1: I’m assuming (hoping) this wouldn’t be a full wipe and start over? It should just upgrade right?

Yes, you can upgrade in-place. If I recall correctly, you just have to change the release channel from LTS to non-LTS in the Sources app, then trigger an update (I don't quite remember how to do)

2: Do I need to do the whole USB route, and if so is there an option to keep everything (I’m hoping, I put a LOT of work into this so far and I don’t remember if that was an option on first install).

No, as I said above. But it's always a good idea to have backups if you ever need to wipe and re-install.

3: I remember a few apps I installed were specific to Noble, will this break those apps?

Hard to be 100% sure without knowing which apps and how they were installed, but most likely yes as their dependencies might no longer be available on Plucky.

4: It seems like there should be an option to upgrade from the desktop, but I don’t have that option. If I run plasma-distro-release-notifier I should get an update notification right? In which case I can just say “hell yeah!” and it’ll do its thing?

Refer to my first answer

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