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Upgrade. It works perfectly fine and when it doesn’t figuring out what’s going on learns me something and several times has resulted in fix commits to the packages.
E: there’s some people saying they do clean installs on Ubuntu. They’re right that ubuntu breaks shit all the time but I’ve solved that by simply not using the bad distros.
Upgrading Ubuntu LTS since 2014. It's always a good idea to read the release notes in order to know what's changed. In general LTS-to-LTS upgrades have been trouble-free.