Will we all be fucked or is there a Linus 2?

  • Pantherina@feddit.de
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    8 months ago

    True. Funny idea I should totally do this. This is how you learn Linux. Like a kernel for exactly your hardware specs!

    • ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶@lemmy.nzOP
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      8 months ago

      I have doubts you would see any performance increases, and if you change your hardware you’ll be in for a tough time but it would be a fun learning experience!

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        8 months ago

        Thats a question I have. I have two laptops, a shitty amd ryzen thinkpad t495 and a fancy soon-to-be-corebooted Clevo NV41MZ with i7-11** cpu. Pretty crazy performance difference although the chassis and keyboard suck. But if I get the keyboard I want to simply swap drives, as there is nothing fancy, this should just work right?

        • ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶@lemmy.nzOP
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          8 months ago

          Um… I’m going to choose to phone a friend on this one…

          Oh, …I have no friends who would know.

          My instinct is you’re going to need to journalctl -b and see what modprobe and udev are up to.

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          8 months ago

          Swapping CPU manufacturers entirely? I’d just start my kernel config fresh. Pull up the old one next to a new (default ) one and go down line by line. Odds are there are at most a few flags that would need to be changed, but it’s a good chance to reevaluate your previous decisions too.

    • Overspark@feddit.nl
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      8 months ago

      This used to be the norm, not a weird thing that noone has thought of before. If you do this your kernel will be a lot smaller, boot faster, and be a bit more secure. Once you’re booted it won’t make any meaningful speed difference though.

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        8 months ago

        It makes a HUGE difference in compile time. Which only matters if you’re building your own kernel anyway. It’s a solution for its own problem.

        I think it’s a good learning experience though. There is genuinely a lot of stuff in there that you can easily, safely remove, and reading up on all the less obvious flags is fun.