Intel Laptop Users Should Avoid Linux 5.19.12 To Avoid Potentially Damaging The Display

[ⲣⲂaggins]

Not to be outdone, AMD laptop users should also avoid linux 5.19.x to avoid broken suspend/resume.

[pWe00Iri3e7Z9lHOX2Qx]

Fedora and Tumbleweed have both pushed out the update to 5.19.13.

[foo@Z840 ~]$ uname -r
5.19.13-200.fc36.x86_64

[foo@Z840 ~]$ distrobox enter tumbleweed

foo@tumbleweed:/home/foo> sudo zypper ref
Repository 'openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Non-Oss' is up to date.
Repository 'openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Oss' is up to date.
Repository 'openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Update' is up to date.
All repositories have been refreshed.

foo@tumbleweed:/home/foo> zypper se -v kernel-default
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...

S | Name                        | Type       | Version           | Arch   | Repository
--+-----------------------------+------------+-------------------+--------+---------------------------
  | kernel-default              | package    | 5.19.13-1.1       | x86_64 | openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Update
    name: kernel-default​

[DRanged]

Debian folks, rise.

I'll bite
Running Debian testing for abt 10 years and my only hiccups were when fglrx was removed, 2x HD7870 setup in CrossFire which was a bummer, and recently booting with a new linux-image abt a month or 2 ago but that was easily alleviated by booting into the previous one.
For the rest it still is rock solid to me can't say anything about other ppl.

[mdedetrich]

Rolling release distros will break your setup at some point. It's not a question of if, but when.

There have been non rolling releases that also break your setup, largely because they don't always completely update to later versions that have security patches/bug fixes for certain software.

Newest software can break stuff, but it can also fix stuff that has been broken (and not noticed) for some reason in the past.

[hamishmb]

I guess this kind of thing is difficult, because especially on the more on-the-fringes hardware, eg SPARC and PPC, things apparently break fairly regularly. Hard to find if not all intel laptops were affected too.

Still shouldn't happen though.

[Rabiator]

So will stable release distros, except breakages will occur only at certain time points and with a much higher chance as you'll update everything at once.

That is where a slightly older kernel as alternative in the boot menu helps. Xubuntu has that. As it is a derivative of Ubuntu, Ubuntu vanilla should have it too.