Per the [general end-of-life policy](https://meta.askubuntu.com/q/19543/177393), as the 18.04 LTS release of Ubuntu will go out of support five years later in April 2023, questions asked about it afterwards will be closed on sight as off-topic, with the user directed to upgrade to a supported release. However, I think there's an argument to make that we should continue to allow questions about it even after that date. One major factor is that **this is the last supported version of Ubuntu with a 32-bit release.** All newer currently supported official versions are exclusively 64-bit releases. This means that users who are running a 32-bit build will be unable to upgrade to a newer release. This includes the following categories of users: - users with 32-bit processors - users who've installed a 32-bit build on a 64-bit processor long ago and have generally otherwise been upgrading for support - users who'd otherwise install a 64-bit build but are running some software that has compatibility issues with 64-bit builds It's worth noting that for many years now, Ubuntu [has supported PAE](https://askubuntu.com/a/488844/177393), meaning that 32-bit versions can address 64 GiB of RAM instead of only 4 GiB, and a processor supporting PAE has been a required prerequisite to install Ubuntu. Additionally, some official flavors of Ubuntu, [such as Lubuntu](https://lubuntu.me/bionic-eol/), don't support upgrading from 18.04 LTS to newer builds, even on 64-bit releases. In summary, while it's generally been easy in the past to upgrade from an unsupported release to a supported one, it would be difficult for a lot of users to upgrade from 18.04 LTS to newer versions for the above reasons, and I'd expect a lot of users would continue to use it even after April 2023. Doing so requires at best a complete clean install (for the second bullet above and for flavors that don't support upgrading), and at worst is completely impossible. Would it be a good idea to make an exception to the normal end-of-life policy for the 18.04 LTS releases of Ubuntu?