[wl]

I recently had an experience with a family member's Ubuntu LTS machine where it was stuck on an old release, /etc/apt/sources.list needed to be edited because of Ubuntu's obnoxious habit of breaking old repositories, and then I needed to debug apt issues to get do-release-upgrade to actually work.

The Macs and iPads have their own problems, but nothing like that.

[imp0cat]

But how old exactly?

https://ubuntu.com/about/release-cycle

The 16.04 is still supported and it was released in 2016! So it must have been an even older system, right?

[fragmede]

Eh. You just install codex or Claude code and tell it to fix it for you.

[pdimitar]

Hell, you can install the gemini/antigravity CLI and use Gemini's free tiers and it will still fix it for you.