I'm now using 12.04 LTS, and I don't like to update because it sometimes causes problems and I need my laptop fully functional these days.
But recently, most of the software I need for my thesis (I'm a chemistry student) requires to update to a more recent version of Ubuntu to install the most recent version and have new characteristics and bugs fixed.
So the question here is: What should I do? Should I take the risk of updating, or maybe is better to download 14.04 and make a re-installation?
This is considering that I have my Home folder in a separated partition from "/"
Thanks in advance...