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Should I now upgrade Ubuntu 16.04 LTS?
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You can still get hardware upgrades on 16.04 by installing a newer kernel:
You would do this for example if you bought a new device to add onto your computer and the drivers for it were only on a newer kernel.
In fact since I’ve started using Ubuntu 14.04 and then 16.04 I’ve usually been running on a newer kernel than the distribution version offered. Partly to stay up-to-date but but mostly as a hobby of researching new kernel versions.