Updating to Kernel 4.6 on 16.04 [closed]
I have a fairly fresh install of Ubuntu 16.04 running on Kernel 4.4.0-22.
Today I saw that the latest stable kernel version is 4.6 on kernel.org and I have a few questions:
Is it worth upgrading to this version of the kernel?
Is it safe to do this with Ubuntu 16.04?
Is there a not-extremely-complicated way to upgrade your kernel?
My specs are: i7-6500U, 8GB RAM DDR3, 128GB SSD, Radeon R7 M360 4GB
1) Unless there's something that's been added in 4.5 or 4.6 that you really need and it hasn't already been backported to 4.4 in Ubuntu, then not really.
2) Highly likely yes. Even if 4.6 does fail to boot for whatever reason, you could always boot back into 4.4 then get rid of 4.6.
3) There's a very easy way: http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2016/05/install-linux-kernel-4-6-ubuntu-16-04/