I finally got to upgrading my Linux Mint laptop from 19.3 to 20.0. 19.3 is supported for another year, but it seemed like a good time to give it a try.
The upgrade process is well documented and straightforward. Basically, make sure you don’t have pending updates, reboot, take a snapshot, disable 3rd party repos and run an upgrade check. If it comes out OK, run the upgrade.
The whole process took about an hour end-to-end on my Lenovo X1 Carbon. It’s not the fastest system out there but has a really great keyboard and is, despite the light weight, really built well.
I’ve been using the new version of Mint for an hour or two and everything is working fine. I also don’t notice any dramatic improvements. There is already a 20.2 version out but I’ll wait a week or two and just go straight to 20.3 which will be available this week.