20.04 dell image for xps 13 9380

I forgot to tell you.

On your laptop, edit the following file :

sudo vim /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades

All lines should be commented except the last one which should be :

Prompt=lts

When a LTS after your current one is proposed, you should get a notification in Gnome to upgrade your whole system.

Unless Dell turns on the 18.04 to 20.04 LTS upgrade path for our machines, no.

The 9300 XPS 2020 model I am using runs 18.04 and I'd like to move to 20.04

I have, in the Software Config, turned on the option called "Notify me of new Ubuntu versions" and set it to "Long Term Support".

If Dell and Ubuntu do things, properly, we should get in a few days or weeks a proposal to upgrade from 18.04 to 20.04

The pre-installed Dell two programs I never use so I don't really need them. I did check all my hardware is on the certified list so the basic image should work fine for me.

But of course, Dell, I would very much prefer to use your image rather than Ubuntu's basic ISO...

https://certification.ubuntu.com/hardware/201910-27450 for the 9300

Try to find the same page for your laptop. Compare the hardware signatures with what lspci shows to confirm.

IMAGE your operating system partition before any upgrade. If anything goes very wrong, image it back....

how can we get full to restore as in the first place when we buy???

Now it will get interesting... Today is the release date of 20.04.1

I am also hoping for tier1-support arriving for these "older" models by seeing them certified for 20.04 at Canonicals hardware database.

As mentioned above, 20.04.1 is out. No upgrade offer here. Changing the upgrade option from "For long-term support versions" to "For any new version" though does offer to upgrade the system.

What bothers me with this approach is that the upgrade version offered is 20.04 whereas I would expect it to offer 20.04.1. Not sure about it so I wait a bit with the option set to offer upgrades for LTS versions only.

well if you upgrade to 20.04 now what you will get is 20.04.1, because that's just the level where updates are. The point release is not a "release on its own" unless you are thinking in terms of .iso image downloads

@Maximilian1st- did you upgrade your system to 20.04? I would like to upgrade as well, but would like to retain the optimisations that Dell provides. Would you be able to share if you've any issues with the HW?

Late negative answer. I did not upgrade the system as it is my main Computer and I really need it to work correctly so I don't dive in.

The settings are still set to notify of any new LTS version. I'm curious if it will notify me of the 20.04 version at some point in time and will surely report about it if it does.

There is an article on OMGubuntu.co.uk about the 20.04.1 LTS upgrade missing in action. It points out that the LTS versions deemed stable enough are in a list here

Let's wait and see

I don't know how I missed that. Thanks for sharing!

In case you would like to follow what's happening here is a discourse link about it

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/focal-fossa-20-04-1-lts-point-release-status-tracking/17604

Looks like the upgrade bug was fixed for Focal.

The meta file for Focal upgrade from Bionic is updated. This should open up the upgrade path, if your Dell config allows

Dell XPS developer 9380:

After selecting upgrade notification for LTS three months ago, it finally popped up (after mentioned bugs have been fixed). The upgrade went fine with the following steps.

• Select upgrade to 20.04 on the notification allowing the turning off of repositories and automatic deletion of old packages (you may not want to do this last step)
• Reboot after upgrade is complete
• Create files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/

$ cat focal-dell.list
deb http://dell.archive.canonical.com/updates/ focal-dell public
# deb-src http://dell.archive.canonical.com/updates/ focal-dell public
$ cat focal-oem.list
deb http://oem.archive.canonical.com/updates/ focal-oem public
# deb-src http://oem.archive.canonical.com/updates/ focal-oem public

• sudo apt update;sudo apt upgrade
• sudo apt install linux-oem-20.04 (for oem kernel)
• sudo apt autoremove (cleanup)
• sudo reboot

Reenable (other than Dell) repos. One gotcha was dropbox which is still at disco but still works. Google, Microsoft, and Teamviewer were just reenabled.

There still is not a new image, but the apps still work if you need them. Hope this helps someone.