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I agree completely! Unfortunately that means either running a very recent distro release, a rolling distro, or upgrading the kernel on a stable distro like Slac
by morganvachon 6y ago
I agree completely! Unfortunately that means either running a very recent distro release, a rolling distro, or upgrading the kernel on a stable distro like Slackware or Debian, currently at 4.4.x and 4.19.x respectively. I chose to run a recent distro release (Pop!_OS 20.04), with the caveat that overall stability is not up to par with traditionally stable distros like those mentioned above. My C2Q workstation runs Slackware 14.2 and, as mentioned before, is rock solid. It has an AMD FirePro "Turks" era card, and it's doing quite well with the open source driver.
- ac29 6y agoUbuntu LTS releases have an official "Hardware Enablement" kernel which is reasonably up to date. On 18.04 LTS, its currently using Kernel 5.3. New Desktop installs default to this updated stack. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack
- morganvachon 6y agoThat's good to know, thanks. I had a lot of bugs with Ubuntu 20.04 that weren't present in Pop, so I stuck with the latter. My goal is to reach stability with Slackware (probably when 15.0 is out) or Void (currently buggy on that build). I prefer KDE Plasma to Gnome, but System76's customizations really make it useful for now.