Ubuntu 19.10 has completed its life cycle and as of yesterday, July 18, 2020, it is left without support. This version will no longer receive further updates from Canonical and the change is mandatory: it is time to jump to the new LTS.
Codenamed 'Eoan Ermine', Ubuntu 19.10 was released on October 17, 2019, which means it has exhausted its nine months of support. This is one of the reasons why we recommend prioritizing LTS versions: they last much longer and receive background updates that keep them more or less up-to-date. And if we add PPA, Snap, and Flatpak, which facilitate updating many applications ... Only the desktop is left behind, and not in all cases.
For example, if instead of using an official Ubuntu flavor you choose KDE neon, desktop, applications, and other tools are updated like clockwork; and the same goes for Linux Mint, which covers Cinnamon, MATE and Xfce desktops. To ask, it would be cool if there was something similar based on GNOME, but there is not, or if there is, it is not as recommended as the distributions I just mentioned.
Returning to the topic at hand, Ubuntu 19.10 says goodbye to not return and the way forward for those who are still using it is only one: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, the new version of extended support of the Canonical distribution and, why not say it, one of the best releases in recent years, at least when it comes to classic flavors, read Ubuntu itself with GNOME, Kubuntu, Xubuntu and even Ubuntu GNOME. For the others, I do not answer.
This is, therefore, a good time to remind those who recently came to Ubuntu, that as with the LTS you are nowhere to be found, and that except for blatant needs for next-generation hardware support, it will always be better to use an LTS. Plus, with the maintenance updates they get, many of those "glaring hardware-related needs" are resolved.
Without going any further, Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS is expected for next August 6, but it is not worth waiting for since it will be simply an incremental update with bug fixes and security patches. On the other hand, Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS, whose launch will not arrive until February of next year, will collect the Ubuntu 20.10 kernel and graphic stack, it will be released this October.
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