Took roughly three hours because meanwhile I was doing other chores and only passed by the laptop roughly every 15 minutes to enable successive stages of the updates. It passed three complete versions of the OS until it finally installed the current version.
Everything went well, the machine is running smoothly and up to date now.
Nice! Which OS?
Ubuntu, went all the steps from LTS 16 to LTS 24. I didn’t bring up Linux in my post because there’s this dumb os bashing all around. I don’t care for that, this os works fine, that’s all I need.
running almost any flavor of gnu/linux is good soup given the alternative. enjoy!
Ubuntu is dull, perfect for this community.
Debian is duller