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Re: Experience with Windows and Linux Mint

From	rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject	Re: Experience with Windows and Linux Mint
Date	2026-02-10 04:25 +0000
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On Tue, 10 Feb 2026 03:09:51 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:

> Yep, I've noticed several people on Reddit have had trouble with Linux
> Mint when upgrading to the 6.17 kernel. The Linux Mint developers
> flopped on this one. Fortunately it's easy to drop back to 6.14 or 6.8
> (which is what I'm still using on the 22.x computers). The 21.x computer
> (my main one) is still at the 5.15 kernel. Works well. This is why I'm
> not much for "cutting edge."

For me it was the Broadcom driver and dkms. 

https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/restricted/b/broadcom-sta/broadcom-
sta-dkms_6.30.223.271-23ubuntu1.2_all.deb

works. After installing it dkms rebuilds the broadcom_sta module for the 
6.17 kernel and on reboot the new kernel is in place. Mint and other 
Ubuntu distros don't do well with Broadcom. I don't have ethernet so for 
the initial install I use a Panda USB wifi dongle. I think it's mediatek 
but it is recognized. Once up the Driver Manager will load a Broadcom 
driver. In this case a working driver (with 6.14) was installed so it 
didn't look for a new one. 

It seems some Macs use Broadcom too. The r/linux_on_mac subreddit has more 
unhappy campers than r/linuxmint.

What I wasn't able to do was to get rind of the 6.17 package so it 
wouldn't try to rebuild on every update. 'apt remove kernel...' and 'apt 
purge kernel...' might work but it's a little ambiguous when it starts 
talking about linux-kernel-generic . 

The Ubuntu box has been a 6.17 for a while but it has a MediaTek. The two 
boxes at 6.18 have Intel and Qualcomm. Broadcom has always been a pain in 
the ass.

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Experience with Windows and Linux Mint RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2026-02-08 17:57 +0000
  Re: Experience with Windows and Linux Mint "Joel W. Crump" <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2026-02-08 13:55 -0500
  Re: Experience with Windows and Linux Mint rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-02-08 19:24 +0000
    Re: Experience with Windows and Linux Mint RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2026-02-10 03:09 +0000
      Re: Experience with Windows and Linux Mint rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-02-10 04:25 +0000
        Re: Experience with Windows and Linux Mint RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2026-02-11 10:39 +0000
          Re: Experience with Windows and Linux Mint rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-02-11 20:30 +0000
            Re: Experience with Windows and Linux Mint CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2026-02-12 00:59 +0000
              Re: Experience with Windows and Linux Mint RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2026-02-12 03:49 +0000
                Re: Experience with Windows and Linux Mint CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2026-02-12 13:48 +0000
                Re: Experience with Windows and Linux Mint RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2026-02-13 09:12 +0000
                Re: Experience with Windows and Linux Mint CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2026-02-13 14:00 +0000
                Re: Experience with Windows and Linux Mint RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2026-02-16 15:26 +0000
                Re: Experience with Windows and Linux Mint CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2026-02-16 17:00 +0000
                Re: Experience with Windows and Linux Mint RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2026-02-16 17:22 +0000
                Re: Experience with Windows and Linux Mint CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2026-02-16 17:46 +0000
                Re: Experience with Windows and Linux Mint DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2026-02-17 12:01 -0500
                Re: Experience with Windows and Linux Mint CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2026-02-18 01:01 +0000
                Re: Experience with Windows and Linux Mint DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2026-02-17 21:54 -0500
                Re: Experience with Windows and Linux Mint Andrew Mulligan <oldeemail1956@aol.com> - 2026-02-17 22:47 -0500
                Re: Experience with Windows and Linux Mint CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2026-02-18 13:11 +0000
                Re: Experience with Windows and Linux Mint RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2026-02-16 17:19 +0000
            Re: Experience with Windows and Linux Mint RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2026-02-12 03:46 +0000
            Re: Experience with Windows and Linux Mint vallor <vallor@vallor.earth> - 2026-02-13 00:17 +0000
              Re: Experience with Windows and Linux Mint rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-02-13 01:05 +0000
              Re: Experience with Windows and Linux Mint pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> - 2026-02-13 02:42 +0000
                Re: Experience with Windows and Linux Mint RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2026-02-13 09:30 +0000
                Re: Experience with Windows and Linux Mint CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2026-02-13 13:44 +0000
                Re: Experience with Windows and Linux Mint RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2026-02-16 15:29 +0000
                Re: Experience with Windows and Linux Mint vallor <vallor@vallor.earth> - 2026-02-13 21:04 +0000
                Re: Experience with Windows and Linux Mint pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> - 2026-02-14 00:12 +0000
                Re: Experience with Windows and Linux Mint RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2026-02-16 15:30 +0000
                Re: Experience with Windows and Linux Mint Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2026-02-13 21:18 +0000
                Re: Experience with Windows and Linux Mint pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> - 2026-02-14 00:13 +0000
                Re: Experience with Windows and Linux Mint Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2026-02-14 13:31 +0000
                Re: Experience with Windows and Linux Mint Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-02-14 22:22 +0000
                Re: Experience with Windows and Linux Mint pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> - 2026-02-14 22:30 +0000
                Re: Experience with Windows and Linux Mint RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2026-02-16 15:36 +0000
                Re: Experience with Windows and Linux Mint RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2026-02-16 15:32 +0000
              Re: Experience with Windows and Linux Mint RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2026-02-13 09:27 +0000
  Re: Experience with Windows and Linux Mint CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2026-02-10 13:44 +0000

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