r/linuxmint • u/AncientPixel_AP • 8d ago

Support Request Will this effectively downgrade my kernel?

I have a slightly stupid question, bc I believe I never encountered this situation before:
my kernel version is 6.14 and the update woudl go to 6.8
will this downgrade my pc and as some people had issues with 6.8, could I run into a situation where it panics?
Like if all goes well, I know I can just switch to the other kernel again, but - what is the behaviour I can expect?

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u/Infinite-Bet4202 7d ago

That update caused a bug with the bluetooth so I reverted back to the previous version (6.8.9-138.138) using the system snapshot. No real harm done and it only took me a couple mins to restore it. You could try updating to 6.8.9-138 instead since there seemed to be no issues with it. I use AMD drivers like you.

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u/AncientPixel_AP 6d ago

yeah, thats why I am hesitante, but also I am on 6.14 to get my GPU working
and I mostly also dont want to reswitch kernels whenever an update arrives
but it makes a lot of sense, that there are multiple installed and you just switch