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To: HKMk23

I don’t know what that is. But the Linux community is very big and very forthcoming with advice.

We’re still using the original version we started with years ago. Works for everything we do - which admittedly isn’t anything very complex, but we’ve never had a problem.


62 posted on 03/28/2022 8:02:31 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

So, I have an older HP laptop that was drowning in MS Win7 and to try to squeeze more life out of it I wiped it and brought it back to life as a Linux machine on Ubuntu 20, and whatever kernel was current — 5 point something.

All was well until there was a kernel update.

After the update all I could get was a black screen, so I had to interrupt the boot and tell it to use to older version of the kernel, and then it would be fine.

A few weeks later, there was another little update, and then everything was fine, and I could boot to the current kernel, once again.

Happiness.

Then that same sequence happened again, and this time I tried to do more to enable the machine to run with the newest kernel, and botched something up to where it’s not able to boot at all. So, it’s an experimental thing I’m getting a Linux education out of, but not otherwise very useful, at the moment.


70 posted on 03/28/2022 9:24:22 PM PDT by HKMk23 (https://youtu.be/LTseTg48568)
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To: Jamestown1630
...very forthcoming with advice...

I found that people on Linux help forums are snobby and snarky.

88 posted on 03/29/2022 6:51:51 AM PDT by GingisK
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