Hello PopOS developers,

Please let me bend your ears with an issue regarding the recent kernel 5.15.5 upgrade.

I have been using Pop!OS 20.04LTS peacefully. Everything had run perfectly until Pop Shop upgraded my system to kernel 5.15.5 a few hours ago. Since then, my laptop fans have been running non-stop even at no load, which had not occurred before. My laptop has been running pretty quietly with the previous kernel 5.13. I'm sensitive to fan noise, so the 5.15.5 kernel is disrupting my work a little bit.

My laptop: Dell Precision 7560, Intel i7-11800H (8 cores), nVidia RTX A4000, 32GB RAM.

I wanted to roll back to kernel 5.13. Unfortunately, I have accidentally hit the apt autoremove which removed the 5.13 and left me with no option for going back to where my system performed as I loved to.

Could you please let me know if there is any plan in place to address this issue?

Furthermore, is it possible to have an option to disable kernel upgrade in Pop Shop?

Thanks for the great OS. I hope my issue gets your attention.

$ uname -a
Linux precision 5.15.5-76051505-generic #202111250933~1638201579~20.04~09f1aa7-Ubuntu SMP Tue Nov 30 02: x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Distribution (run cat /etc/os-release):

$ cat /etc/os-release
NAME="Pop!_OS"
VERSION="20.04 LTS"
ID=pop
ID_LIKE="ubuntu debian"
PRETTY_NAME="Pop!_OS 20.04 LTS"
VERSION_ID="20.04"
HOME_URL="https://pop.system76.com"
SUPPORT_URL="https://support.system76.com"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://github.com/pop-os/pop/issues"
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://system76.com/privacy"
VERSION_CODENAME=focal
UBUNTU_CODENAME=focal
LOGO=distributor-logo-pop-os