From: vallor@vallor.earth   
      
   At Fri, 16 Jan 2026 08:51:05 +1100, Axel  wrote:   
      
   > dbnnet wrote:   
   > > In article <10k940p$9jtu$1@dont-email.me>, alan@invalid.com says...   
   > >> Well, Mint 22.2 was running on 6.8 kernel. I just upgraded and was   
   > >> reading the 'What's new' blog and playing with new   
   > > things.   
   > >> I notice that it says "Mint 22.3 will run with kernel 6.14"   
   > >> But I still have 6.8.    Should I switch over to 6.14?   
   > >>   
   > >> -- Linux Mint 22.3,  Mozilla Thunderbird 140.6.0esr,  Mozilla   
   > >> Firefox 146.0.1   
   > >>      Alan K.   
   > >>   
   > > A new install I did went went directly onto 6.14 but two upgrade   
   > > machines stayed on 6.8   
   >   
   > would that be because LM determined that 6.14 would be unsuitable? my   
   > PC stayed at 6.8. should I upgrade or not?   
      
   I'd say, run what works -- don't bother with 6.14 unless it   
   has features that you want or need.   
      
   (I have it running on my laptop because it has support for the   
   illuminated keyboard.)   
      
   >   
   > > One one of them I switched over to 6.14 without any issues.   
   > >   
      
   I have a Linux Mint 22.2 system running a 6.14 kernel, it is   
   available under "kernels" in the update manager.   
      
   # grep NAME /etc/os-release   
   NAME="Linux Mint"   
   PRETTY_NAME="Linux Mint 22.2"   
   VERSION_CODENAME=zara   
   UBUNTU_CODENAME=noble   
      
   # uname -a   
   Linux tuf 6.14.0-37-generic #37~24.04.1-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu   
   Nov 20 10:25:38 UTC 2 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux   
      
   --   
   -v System76 Thelio Mega v1.1 x86_64 Mem: 258G   
      OS: Linux 6.18.5 D: Mint 22.3 DE: Xfce 4.18 (X11)   
      NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090Ti (24G) (580.105.08)   
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