It seems this behavior is expected, although probably insufficiently documented. We will make sure to clear things out in various documentation bits, but with 20.04 it has been decided that the Ubuntu Desktop flavor will be shipping a HWE kernel by default from the start. Apologies for this unclear situation, I have no idea how this got missed in the announcements.
Per: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FocalFossa/ReleaseNotes#Ubuntu_Desktop -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1911614 Title: Ubuntu 20.04 and 20.04.1 images use linux-generic-hwe-20.04 instead of linux-generic To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-meta/+bug/1911614/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs