> Relative to a kernel version you'd encounter in something like rhel or debian stable however, tracking mainline's "stable" branch is still pretty damn aggress

> Relative to a kernel version you'd encounter in something like rhel or debian stable however, tracking mainline's "stable" branch is still pretty damn aggressive. If you want to run hardware released in the last year or so, LTS kernels have a funny tendency not to ever work. I've yet to buy a laptop that didn't at least need latest mainline. It shouldn't have to count as 'aggressive' to want a kernel that will work with my hardware, but I guess that's what we get when there's no HAL.