Well, 14.04 was released in April and the upgrade notice didn’t appear until this week, so I assume that is has been flogged rather vigorously. The Linux kernel was updated today, so things seem to be in hand. All of my programs work with the new version, so I haven’t noted any major changes, beyond it’s being more graphically oriented in the Unity version, but I can live with that.

Yes, it’s tough to make the choices when you don’t know how long your resources have to last.

I freely admit I do not deal with long installs and similar annoyances as well as I did in my younger years, and diabetes isn’t helping matters. I’m afraid if I outlive the support cycle of 12.04 LTS on this old machine, I’ll find myself stranded with something unsatisfactory in my “golden” (heh) years. So I need to spend money on a new machine and OS now, not later. But I also really need a new used car, preferably cripple-equipped, and if I don’t do that now, I’ll end up spending money to maintain this 20-year-old Chevy yet again.

I eat desert while I’m cooking dinner and then when I’m cleaning up – the sugar gives me the energy 🙂

I would consider a used box from Amazon that was more current than what you have, although the System 76s are nice machines and you don’t have to set up the software. The used Dell I picked up for XP is a good box and it was under $200.

Other than the change in upgrading and getting a newer version of the game, it was a remarkably pain free change with no lost data, but I have a 1TB disk for it to play with.