As of today, a little less than 48 hours from when I switched back to 23.10 and updated, I’m back on my “pure” Ubuntu 24.04 desktop on my Raspberry Pi 5.

I don’t know why, but the updated installation proved to be unstable, with the system randomly rebooting after the update. I suspect that it was the extension manager coupled with the desktop clock that you will note is not running in the lower left corner. I had written earlier how very unstable the extension manager was after the initial 24.04 installation and how I had removed it completely. Apparently even grandfathering it in via the 23.10 -> 24.04 update proved to be as unstable as a clean install. Live and learn.

And since I’m living and learning I don’t think I’ll update to 24.10 in spite of what I wrote in the last post. I cherish stability above all else in my operating systems, both personal and professionally.

You might ask why I didn’t remove the desktop clock and the extension manager. Because I already had a clean stable install of 24.04 ready to go with very little effort to swap in. And just because I suspected it was those two applications, I couldn’t prove that was the issue. I didn’t want to run the risk that it was something else. So I just simply made the swap.