It’s been a long time coming, but I’m finally gonna do it.
Truth be told the original install (after a hard drive wipe of 7.10) was 8.04 LTS, so I didn’t have to upgrade the first time, but I enabled the regular upstream upgrades, and here we are. I just like new stuff too much :/
And in 3 months or so I’ll probably be upgrading to 9.10.