Rather than start a new thread - I’ll just hijiack this one and describe my “journey” to Focal Fossa…
Painless, almost a week later…
How I did it? Couple weeks ago I wiped my Dell E7440 of 19.10 and re-installed from scratch with 18.04.4 - everything’s working… Got connectivity to my employer’s VPN (hideous Checkpoint SSL “snx” product) - which is 100% vital during all this WFH during pandemic lockdown - and we just onboarded a new customer, and I have to use Citrix ICA client- no joy getting it to install or work on 19.10, but works fine and installs painlessly on 18.04…
So - I never invest too much in my desktop builds, all my data is stored on my NAS, or sync’d via Resilio Sync - I forced upgrade to 20.04 from 18.04 with “sudo do-release-upgrade -d” - and EVERYTHING I need still works, especially the ghastly Checkpoint software VPN connectiivity and Citrix ICA client!
So - now I’m doing the same on my other main “daily driver” - a Dell E7250 - which I normally kept at work, which started off as 18.10, then 19.04, then 19.10… i.e. installing 18.04.4 fresh, I’ll install my pre-requisites, make sure it’s all working hunky dory, then force upgrade to 20.04 - wish me luck - I don’t anticipate any hiccups…
The only thing I won’t be able to “keep” is my Dropbox, I’m slowly whittling it away to the three device limitation, but I’ve mostly divorced myself from them… I want to get it down to two, so I can then connect my phone handset, as Dropbox works better than Resilio Sync on mobile devices… in the end I’ll just have my Nokia 4.2 (not currently able to connect), my iPad Pro and one desktop computer (running Linux)…
Anyway the Dell Latitude E7250 is now wiped and fresh install of Bionic Beaver with openssh-server installed (I do pretty much 100% of my final setup and tweaking from the CLI remotely)…
Also - Microsoft Teams on Linux works flawlessly, telephony, conferences et cetera, but telephony only works for other Teams users (to or from) within the company I work for, I can’t dial outside like I can with Skype for Business, so I just use my mobile… I reckon I’m pretty much done with Windows for now… Did one conference first thing this morning using Teams “Preview” for Linux, then immediately followed that up with a Bluejean tele-conference, using the native Linux app…