in the update manager you can view the installed kernels. is it true that you should remove "End of Life" kernels? (lemmy.world)

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to make sure we are on the same page. I open Update Manager, click on View then on Linux Kernels.

in there i have many kernels.

I have for example

6.17 and when i click on that it shows

6.17.0-42 End of Life

6.17.0-41 End of Life

and many others that show End of Life.

I just watched https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKQ0Ctu3NZs&t=172s and he said any of the kernels that show End of Life I should remove them. Is that always true or is there a reason to keep those kernels?

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[-] jodanlime@midwest.social 4 points 2 weeks ago

If you aren't booting that kernel it doesn't really matter either way as far as I know. If you aren't using them they will just take up space anyway, I could see having one or two for backup but fwiw the default on Arch is to only have the current kernel unless you install extras. If you haven't noticed any major glitches in a week or so I would think it's pretty safe to prune the old kernels.

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