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But also I thought Linux distros normally keep the old Kernel around after an update so stuff like this doesn’t cause a boot failure?
Arch has no concept of “previous package”, so it doesn’t do this.
You could install linux-lts
(or one of the other alternative kernels) side by side with the linux
package, so you always have a bootable fallback, but like most things on Arch it’s not enforced.
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