The Zorin OS 16 to 17 upgrade has arrived:
I'm sorry for the delay. What I do is I keep tabs open that I need to keep track of. While working on a tricky thing of my own, it resulted in a series of crashes that resulted in me losing all my open tabs.
(I could have gone through the extensive history and restored some but... I was tired and irritable at that point).
There is more than one way to do what is suggested:
- Change the kernel in the Zorin OS 17 .iso and then re-wrap the .iso with the new kernel. This is tricky and I do not recommend this approach.
- Install Zorin OS 17, then immediately install the different kernel prior to rebooting into the new desktop. This is easy and definitely what I would try first.
The steps to do the second option would be to install Zorin OS normally.
Once it completes, it will tell you to reboot. Do so... Except monitor the screen and bap the esc or tab key as needed to reach the Grub Menu (necessary if single booting with no other OS. If you are dual booting, the Grub menu should show at every boot).
From the Grub Menu, select Advanced Options for Zorin.
From there, you can select a kernel to boot from or - that kernel on (Recovery). Select the first convenient (Recovery) option.
This will take you to the recovery menu.
You must first enable networking so arrow key down to the option to do so. Once networking is enabled granting you net access, back up to the recovery menu and arrow key down to Root - Drop to Prompt
In this, you must enter the terminal command to install the kernel you want. First, update your sources
sudo apt update
Install the kernel in use on Zorin OS 16.3:
sudo apt install linux-image-5.15.0-83-generic linux-headers-5.15.0-83-generic linux-modules-5.15.0-83-generic linux-modules-extra-5.15.0-83-generic
I believe the latest on 16.3 is actually -92 or something, but when I did an apt search on 16.3 for it, I only saw one for -91 so I opted for the -83 for safety.
Once the kernel is installed, reboot. Immediately enter the Grub menu again, and Advanced Options for Zorin. Select the option for Zorin on 5.15... to boot from.
Once booted into the desktop, you will need to follow the steps here:
To ensure you default boot into the earlier working kernel.