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Looking to upgrade kernel in Pop OS. I want to know if it is safe to just install latest kernel straight from current version to newest version. I've worked alot with machines that needed firmware updates and some of them had to have the firmware updated slowly in a couple of steps at a time. Not sure if Linux works anything like this. Any one have experience doing this? I did stumble around the web for answers but kept finding sites 8 to 10 years old. What do you think is best way to do this?

Looking to upgrade kernel in Pop OS. I want to know if it is safe to just install latest kernel straight from current version to newest version. I've worked alot with machines that needed firmware updates and some of them had to have the firmware updated slowly in a couple of steps at a time. Not sure if Linux works anything like this. Any one have experience doing this? I did stumble around the web for answers but kept finding sites 8 to 10 years old. What do you think is best way to do this?

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You should be fine. You should already have the latest CPU firmware installed and linux works hard to preserve abi.

Only catch night be nvidia driver but 5.10 has been out long enough I wouldn't expect issues.

If you're using grub, you can have multiple kernels installed. So rolling back shouldn't pose a challenge.

Iirc, btrfs has numerous improvements and bug fixes. So if btrfs user, prob what you want.