Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is set to launch next week, but if you’re planning to run it on a computer with one of Intel’s new 12th-gen Core processors, one of the first things you might want to do is upgrade the Linux kernel.
In other tech news from around the web, Amazon Kids+ has launched its first two original games, the Nokia C2 2nd-gen budget smartphone that HMD unveiled in February just passed through the FCC on its way to launch, and while you can’t go out and buy a Chromebook with an AMD Ryzen 7 5800U processor yet, the folks at Chrome Unboxed got their hands on a pre-production model and put it through the paces, showing what a Chrome OS laptop can do when equipped with the sort of processor you’d typically find in a premium Windows thin and light notebook.
Most Chromebooks with AMD processors are using older chips, but @chromeunboxed managed to go hands-on with pre-production Chromebook with a Ryzen 7 5800U processor and 16GB of RAM. Unsurprisingly it’s fast. https://t.co/CpaxNQ5tJ8
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Ubuntu 22.04 launches next week as a Long Term Support release. It uses Linux kernel 5.15 by default, but if you’ve got a 12th-gen Intel Core chip, you may want to update the kernel to 5.16 or later for improved performance and efficiency. https://t.co/JJzxxamzEH
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Nokia C2 2nd-edition budget Android Go Edition phone with a user replaceable battery passes through the FCC. https://t.co/Wz1MOBRF7h
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Older Ryzen 3 series laptop chips would be ideal for chromebooks, but it looks like AMD doesn’t order those wafers anymore. It’s either high-end or low-end (and demand for high-end chromebooks is almost nonexistent). Looks like high-school kids are going to keep running celery chromebooks.
I don’t keep up with the specifics of the Linux kernel from one version to the next, but I did run into the same situation putting Linux on a laptop with an 11th-gen Intel CPU just a few months ago. It would freeze playing video. I believe it was the kernel 5.15 that fixed it for me and I was happy to find it works with only one tiny quirk that I’ve noticed.