&gt; I&#x27;m not actually looking for something for my grandma, of course. And I can usually recover my system when stuff like this happens, as long as I have a different online connection and a few hours to spare. I just hate doing it.<p>Well, me too. I have an HTPC (2009-ish box with Atom and Nvidia ION) running minimal Ubuntu installation, and that means that updates are always <i>exciting</i> (i.e. there is X server, but no display manager, no desktop environment and no gnome&#x2F;kde&#x2F;whatever config tools, the only X client is kodi run as an upstart service). Boy, how I hate upgrading that... Usually only after kodi stops supporting the version I&#x27;m running. Last time (12.04-&gt;14.04) the problem was that the kernel in 14.04.2 installer was too new for the nvidia driver (304) in the repo. Next upgrade (hopefully no sooner than next year) I&#x27;m going to learn at least how to change upstart service into systemd service.<p>On the other hand, the Ubuntu machine that my parents use (literally definition of grandma and grandpa :) ) updates smoothly and it really is just pressing the button.