Issues and results of How to upgrade Zorin 16.2 to a newer kernel

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Worked smoothly for me, a novice, except that I got a "bad shim" error preventing me from booting until I disabled Secure Boot.

Thank you.

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Correction: 5.15.96 broke external display functionality, and 6.0.9 wouldn't boot at all. I couldn't raise the GRUB menu, so I'm stuck reinstalling the OS.

I don't think I'm cut out for kernel-switching yet.

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Usually this is a last resort. You're going beyond the developers support and tested configurations. This can break systems. Hopefully a fresh install and the 390 driver will have you all fixed.

Moderator note: Moved to general help under new topic so as not to distract from the tutorial and updates to the topic. Unless creating a tutorial, please reserve comments, issues or results of tutorials to another category.

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Sorry: what's the 390 driver?

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That's my mistake...I mentally confused two very similar issues... my mistake.

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A post was merged into an existing topic: How to upgrade Zorin 16.2 to a newer kernel

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The LTS kernel still gets security and bug fixes. So installing a new one isn't a must but for the owners of extremely recent hardware. Performance changes, for the better or for worse, occur. Minimal ones, unneeded for most use cases.

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