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You'll probably spend more time setting up bleeding edge kernel PPAs and what-have-you than this will save you. If "when will I get?" is ever a question for you
by zamalek 3y ago
You'll probably spend more time setting up bleeding edge kernel PPAs and what-have-you than this will save you. If "when will I get?" is ever a question for you, then an Ubuntu-based distro is probably the wrong choice: Ubuntu is about stability, not features.
- jeroenhd 3y agoWhile this is true, they do occasionally backport some stuff from newer kernels (usually for security reasons). This looks like a reasonably easy-to-backport patch, assuming the code hasn't been refactored since Ubuntu pinned their kernel version for a release of choice.
- PrimeMcFly 3y agoWhen did this change? I remember the opposite being true, i.e. jumping on Wayland, PulseAudio when it still had issues, etc.
- tracker1 3y agoDepends on if you're running LTS or an in-between release... the release right before an LTS can be really active in the first 3 months or so. At least that's been my experience. That said, some updates will be frozen entirely at the release before LTS. In either case, I wouldn't expect it before 12-18 months... The RDNA 1 drivers seemed to take 8 months to see something stable drop in an LTS, the release before LTS was running an older kernel and had to add a custom PPA for more bleeding edge kernels (breaking a bunch of other stuff, but at least I could see the screen, when an update didn't kill it).
- nonethewiser 3y agoOk. But back to the question. When might PopOS get this?
- tracker1 3y agoProbably 12-18 months. Next major LTS or the release before is where most jumps happen. If it's less than 6 months until the next LTS, then wouldn't expect it until the interim release after the next LTS... at least that's been my general experience. Then another month or two from the downstream PopOS release.