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yes, about to, just wanted to see if you had any comment first.
Thanks for your help.
Answering your questions got us to the answer.

In fact that may be the answer.
Just checked the dependencies
Output of

aptitude show system76-driver



So, it seems an update to the system76 driver caused the install of the hwe kernel....

No, I did not have any problem
that caused me to manually install the hwe kernel.
Most of my problems get solved by coffee, not kernels.

The output of dpkg -l linux-image*


This is...

Thanks for the fast response.

I installed the original 18.04, from the xubuntu-18.04-desktop-amd64.iso medium
though over time it has upgraded to 18.04.2.
From lsb_release -a


The output...

I am running a clean install of Xubuntu 18.04 (from xubuntu-18.04-desktop-amd64.iso)
on 2 laptops (one with nvidia graphics, one with intel graphics) and on 3 VMs.

apt list --installed...