I've been using Linux Mint for a while as I got fed up with many aspects of Windows but one thing I can't get my head round is which kernel version I should use, my current active kernel is 5.3.0-40 & it says it is supported until 2020 whereas 4.15.0-88 is supported until 2023 & to confuse things even more 4.0.18-25 is end of life. what confuses me is I would naturally think that 5.3 is newer than 4.18 which in turn is newer than 4.15 but the one that appears to be the latest has it's support ending this year but the prior one goes on until 2023, does this mean sometime this year I will need to switch to an older kernel. In truth I have activated them both (one at a time obviously) & I see no difference in how the system runs, I would just like to have a better grasp of the basics regarding kernel versions so if anyone could explain it to me in simple layman's terms I would be very grateful.My system is Mint (Cinnamon) 19.3 Tricia.
Thank you.
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