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My Laptop is very old and doesn't need support for new hardware. Updating to new kernel releases has made me 2nd monitor not to work. How can I opt out of HWE and stay with 5years supported kernel? I don't need new Linux kernels every 6months or so. In server installations GA kernel is the default, is there any option like that in desktop(laptop) version. Please help.

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If you want the ga kernel, install the linux-generic kernel packages and then remove the linux-generic-hwe-16.04 kernel packages.

Reference: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/RollingLTSEnablementStack

Organic Marble
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  • Thanks, I had installed ga kernel successfully (using sudo apt-get install linux-image-generic-lts-xenial linux-generic-lts-xenial ) and just want to keep hwd kernel. Can i create separate GRUB entries for ga and hwe kernel like Ubuntu_ga and Ubuntu_hwd ( grub customizer could be used but i guess i have to change entries every time kernel updates ) – RamKiran Kesana Jan 08 '18 at 14:50
  • Apologies, but can you give insight into how to do that? Like a step-by-step? – NessDan Apr 30 '21 at 16:06
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    @NessDan step-by-step answers would be for 16.04, which is probably not what you want. Best to ask a new question, specifying what version of Ubuntu you are using. – Organic Marble May 01 '21 at 14:16