update manager refuses to upgrade kernel to newer version

[Karl Auer]

On Sat, 2016-02-13 at 15:42 +0100, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> this unwanted "crap" is what makes ubuntu ubuntu,

No non-trivial software is perfect.

I've been using Linux since 1992, maybe 1993. Started with dozens of
1.44Mb floppies. I dropped Windows from my personal usage two years
later, and have used Linux exclusively for all my work and play since
with a bit of Solaris thrown in. I've used Ubuntu since 6.04. It has
always had stuff I didn't like. It has always had stuff I didn't need.
Each and every version has needed some tweaks to work the way I wanted
it, but not once has it ever really let me down; not once has it been
bad enough for me to even consider, for one second, moving away from the
extraordinary convenience and completeness that Ubuntu offers.

As far as I am concerned, complaints about GRUB2, or something not
automounting, or the differences between systemv and systemd are the
operating system equivalent of "first world problems". People who whinge
about them are the equivalent of the whining child who throws a tantrum
because Daddy gave them a white Mercedes for their 18th birthday instead
of a silver one. I.e., they have no idea how amazingly good they have
it, nor the amount of work and effort that has gone in behind the scenes
to make their lives better. Every selfish whinge, every wild accusation
of incompetence is an ungrateful slap in the face to those who give of
their time and effort and then give us the result. Including those who
give of their time and effort to help us in forums like this one.

Keep slapping them and they'll stop. And we'll be back to sending
hundreds of dollars to Microsoft or Apple for a substandard product.
They don't mind being spat on, as long as we pay.

It's FREE, people! And it's AMAZING! Stand back, stand in AWE, and be
THANKFUL that you live in a world with such people as will GIVE you a
tool of this ASTOUNDING power and versatility. And the same goes for
EVERY distro I have ever had anything to do with, whether it was useful
to me or not.

Regards, K.

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