…Microsoft was now bundling, patching, and shipping a Linux kernel as a headline feature of Windows. Taking a step back and truly taking in all of the history between Microsoft and anything…
…CachyOS's objection was never a technical one Peter Jung, who founded CachyOS and drives most of its kernel work, pretty clearly laid out his reasoning in a Reddit thread the day…
…they pulled IronFall from the eShop entirely on August 11, before the exploit was even publicly released. The game eventually returned in October with a patched update, but there was a clear…
…all the right improvements The custom kernel is also optimized for performance and can often include patches that haven't been added to the mainline kernel yet, and support for the EEVDF…
…Cards that used to be officially supported now require a community patch from the PolloLoco vGPU projec t, which is way more involved than just clicking "install." The kernel side adds another…
…The PowerVR GPU's kernel module isn't loaded at all, and there are no Vulkan, OpenGL ES, or OpenCL libraries. The video engine has its kernel driver loaded and exposes its…
…t give you a different kernel version to work off of, it's more about the userspace freshness and how long you'll be fed consistent patches and updates that are stable…
…Almost none of them ship with full mainline kernel support out of the box. Rockchip platforms in particular have historically depended on vendor board support packages, downstream kernel forks pinned years behind…
…It was the key marker of a developer that was taking the platform seriously , and there were always forum threads created after every popular release talking about whether Linux support would be…
…So you’ll struggle with the lack of proper kernel support, and sometimes it doesn’t exist. I planned to run a community-supported OS, but that requires custom kernels, patches, and…