Skip Mint 20 and wait for 21?

[Boca]

what are your thoughts on skipping Mint 20 and waiting for 21?

Both my laptops are currently on 19.3 which is supported to April 2023.
Mint 21 launch is scheduled for mid-2022 (viewtopic.php?f=46&t=334222)

My thinking..

One of my pc is quite old

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Machine: Type: Laptop System: Dell product: Latitude E6430 v: 01 serial: <filter>  
Mobo: Dell model: 0CPWYR v: A00 serial: <filter> BIOS: Dell v: A07   date: 10/08/2012

I don't see any significant functional advantage in upgrading to 20.
although an install of 20 itself is not difficult, there are various customisations that I need to perform to " get back to where I am with 19.3"
Upgrading to Mint 21 in late 2022 should have given it time to ease out any issues.


Tony

PS I haven't yet tried a live install of 20... but the outcome of that trial would also be a factor

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tony@tony-Latitude-E6430:~$ inxi -Fxz
System:
  Host: tony-Latitude-E6430 Kernel: 4.15.0-136-generic x86_64 bits: 64 
  compiler: gcc v: 7.5.0 Desktop: MATE 1.22.2 Distro: Linux Mint 19.3 Tricia 
  base: Ubuntu 18.04 bionic 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Dell product: Latitude E6430 v: 01 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: Dell model: 0CPWYR v: A00 serial: <filter> BIOS: Dell v: A07 
  date: 10/08/2012 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 62.2 Wh condition: 31.1/62.2 Wh (50%) 
  model: SMP DELL MKD6223 status: Full 
CPU:
  Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core i5-3210M bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
  arch: Ivy Bridge rev: 9 L2 cache: 3072 KiB 
  flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 19935 
  Speed: 2647 MHz min/max: 1200/3100 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2647 2: 2047 
  3: 2302 4: 2001 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics vendor: Dell driver: i915 
  v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.6 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa 
  resolution: 1366x768~60Hz, 1024x768~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 4000 (IVB GT2) 
  v: 4.2 Mesa 20.0.8 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 7 Series/C216 Family High Definition Audio vendor: Dell 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 
  Device-2: Generalplus type: USB driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid 
  bus ID: 3-4.3:4 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.15.0-136-generic 
Network:
  Device-1: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Network vendor: Dell driver: e1000e 
  v: 3.2.6-k port: f080 bus ID: 00:19.0 
  IF: eno1 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel 
  port: f040 bus ID: 02:00.0 
  IF: wlp2s0 state: down mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 402.54 GiB used: 323.35 GiB (80.3%) 
  ID-1: /dev/mmcblk0 model: SD32G size: 29.92 GiB 
  ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Hitachi model: HTS722080K9A300 size: 74.53 GiB 
  ID-3: /dev/sdb vendor: Toshiba model: MK3261GSYN size: 298.09 GiB 
RAID:
  Hardware-1: Intel 82801 Mobile SATA Controller [RAID mode] driver: ahci 
  v: 3.0 bus ID: 00:1f.2 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 72.86 GiB used: 54.97 GiB (75.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 50.0 C mobo: 37.0 C sodimm: 35.0 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 2711 
Info:
  Processes: 233 Uptime: 2d 14h 34m Memory: 11.60 GiB used: 6.10 GiB (52.6%) 
  Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 7.5.0 Shell: bash v: 4.4.20 
  inxi: 3.0.32 

[Night Wing]

This post I'm typing this message is from an HP desktop tower computer, an HPE-170t model to be specific which I bought back in May of the year 2010 and it originally came with 64 bit Windows 7. It still has the original memory in it from then which is 16 GB. The processor in it is an Intel i7 which has a speed of (2.80). And I use an ethernet cable, not wifi, to connect to the internet.

I live in a small rural town, population is around 1300 people, in southeast Texas and my ISP is Comcast/Xfinity. I have an internet download speed of 328 Mbps with an upload speed of 12 Mbps. This desktop tower computer runs 64 bit Linux Mint 20.1 (Ulyssa) Xfce without any problems on a nearly eleven year old computer at the time of this post. I use the generic Nouveau graphics driver for linux Mint. The kernel I'm using in this computer is (5.4.0-66). The hard drive Mint is installed on is an old fashioned 7200 rpm platter drive (Western Digital). Mint runs fast on this old beast.

So my computer is two years older than your's. If you have enough memory with a good internet speed from your ISP when using your wifi, in my opinion, you should not have any problems using Mint 20 or (20.1).

[JoeFootball]

I don't see any significant functional advantage in upgrading to 20.

If you're content with LM 19.3, and there's no overly compelling features of LM 20.x for you, then stay with LM 19.3.

Speaking for myself, my "main" computers typically stay with whatever the latest x.3 version of LM is. As of today, that's LM 19.3, and sometime in early 2022, they'll migrate to LM 20.3.