What is your Linux kernel usage?

General system Kernel, boot, graphics & hardware
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Mine is excessive :sweat_smile:

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bender@t480:~$ apt list --installed | grep linux-image

WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.

linux-image-6.1.0-32-amd64/stable,now 6.1.129-1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
linux-image-amd64/stable,now 6.1.129-1 amd64 [installed]
bender@t480:~$
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Rocking the LTS kernel, flying solo, no parachute!

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Same here, LTS is really for backup ā€œifā€ somethings goes wrong.

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Hello!

I have the same 3 kernels (linux 6.14, 6.14 zen and 6.12 LTS) installed and I am using zen kernel right now.

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That is expected. linux-zen is optimized for a better latency / system responsiveness but not for a better throughput / performance. Optimizing for better latency / system responsiveness means that you have to sacrifice throughput / performance.

The liquorix kernel is based on linux-zen (or vice versa) and they tell it on their website:

Zen Interactive Tuning: Tunes the kernel for responsiveness at the cost of throughput and power usage.

Which basically means that a laptop with liquorix / zen kernel is slower and consumes more energy.

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Daily driver is Linux LTS 6.12.x. I would love to also have Linux LTS 6.6.x but it is not available in the Arch repos.
Also I use Linux Hardened, which is as on date based on 6.13.x branch of Linux.

Is liquorix kernel available in Arch Repos? Have heard a lot of good things about it.

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Itā€™s in the aur, so you could build it. I donā€™t know what its update schedule is though.

>>> yay -Ss linux-lts66                                                                                      
aur/linux-lts66-headers 6.6.86-1 (+6 2.04) 
    Headers and scripts for building modules for the LTS Linux kernel
aur/linux-lts66-docs 6.6.86-1 (+6 2.04) 
    Documentation for the LTS Linux kernel
aur/linux-lts66 6.6.86-1 (+6 2.04) 
    The LTS Linux kernel and modules
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$ paru -Ss liquorix
aur/linux-lqx 6.14.2.lqx1-1 [+164 ~1.40]
    The Linux Liquorix kernel and modules
aur/linux-lqx-docs 6.14.2.lqx1-1 [+164 ~1.40]
    Documentation for the Linux Liquorix kernel
aur/linux-lqx-headers 6.14.2.lqx1-1 [+164 ~1.40]
    Headers and scripts for building modules for the Linux Liquorix kernel
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Liquorix has a repo from the kernel maintainer himself @damentz

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unofficial_user_repositories#liquorix

If you are interested, you could follow the instructions and add it to your /etc/pacman.conf.

However, you could install zen kernel which is practically similar to liquorix and available in Archā€™s repo: https://github.com/zen-kernel/zen-kernel/wiki/FAQ

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I am using:
Linux latest
Linux LTS (for backup).

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I think thatā€™s the only reason I havenā€™t bothered testing the Liquorix kernel. I have the Zen kernel and just didnā€™t think it was worth bothering with.

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I use whatever LTS kernel is in the repositories. I run Alpine Linux on the edge branch so the difference between linux-edge and linux-lts isnā€™t that big, itā€™s no big deal to use the LTS version and as result I have a more stable system. Sometimes the kernel might introduce a nasty bug, itā€™s not common but it might occasionally happen and I donā€™t really have enough upsides to risk using the latest version.

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I use by default the LTS kernel and keep the regular Arch kernel as a fallback since my computer crashed in 2021 (I had only one kernel at that time). Iā€™m not a gamer, so the LTS kernel is quite OK for me.

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I have all three kernels installed. Mostly use linux kernel. Sometimes zen . Very rarely, actually as a backup I use lts

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Just reading through this topic itā€™s interesting to see the different kernels people are using. Iā€™d be curious to hear peoples experience from using zen, liquorix, cachyos or other kernels if they actually notice a difference in their user experience whether that be gaming or other intensive tasks

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I use the Cachy kernel as my main, and I have the standard lts one as backup.

Which is funny because due to an annoying and persistent amd kernel bug since 6.12 it means the lts kernel currently crashes more than the fancy cachy one XD

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That is strange. If the bug has been fixed in the newer kernels, the fix should have been ported back to LTS as well. It is not for nothing it is called Long Term Support. It will not get any new features but, during its support period, it should get any other bug and security fixes that the latest kernels get.

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Thatā€™s the thing, the bug is still very much open, it just seems to happen less in the 6.14 kernel. It was triggering the most in 6.13.

Also from what one of the PikaOS devs told me itā€™s apparently not a single but a cluster of hard to isolate bugs that all cause a similar outcome.

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A Zen user hereā€¦Iā€™m gaming about 20% of my usage & BOINC for ā€œmostā€ of the rest. Iā€™ve used both main & zen, saw a ā€œslightā€ increase out of zen & stayed with it.

As Iā€™ve heard elsewhere ā€œYour mileage may varyā€

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