Installing kernel 3.5+ on ubuntu 14.04(disregard, I'm a silly bitch)

Operating Systems & Open Source Linux
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Back again, I'm just about setup on linux. Graphics drivers installed just fine. Played a game of dota. got my teamspeak server running minus the need to flash my router cause it's a piece of shit and won't respect the port forward settings.

Now I'm trying to install drivers for my graphics tablet (Huion 610Pro) from here https://github.com/DIGImend/digimend-kernel-drivers.

Now the digimend needs at least linux-headers-3.5, but I'm running 3.16 and it says that is the most up to date kernel. But if I give it the command to install a 3.5+ kernel it gives me this.

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-3.5.0-23-generic
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package linux-headers-3.5.0-23-generic
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'linux-headers-3.5.0-23-generic'
leon@LeonPC:~$

For whatever reason I can't find 3.5+ kernels. Should I look for some other way to install drivers for the graphics tablet, or is there something I can do to install the kernel?

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Um, that would be downgrading the kernel, and that's not the way to do it. Try this instead:
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)

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leon@LeonPC:~$ sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)
[sudo] password for leon:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
linux-headers-3.16.0-37-generic is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 13 not upgraded.
leon@LeonPC:~$

Ohhhhhhhh, So 3.16 is 3.sixteen, and not 3.1.6. Oh. So it should work fine, shouldn't it?

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Yes. 14.04 is a few kernels behind though. Depending on your setup, you may benefit from upgrading to 15.04.

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Any performance gains for a 970 on 15.04? I'd probably just boot up windows if I wanted larger game performance.

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Just install the latest proprietary Nvidia drivers and you are good to go. Doubt you are interested in running Noveau, since you mentioned that you plan on gaming.

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I followed Windel's guide installing (the?) mamarley('s?) drivers on the 900 series cards.

And I had never heard of Noveau before this. Nearly a complete noob at linux. Was trying to run debian RC2 and a shit ton of the commands were not the same, couldn't open gedit with sudo and all kinds of shit, so I decided to run ubuntu after that and I am thoroughly enjoying myself so far.