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this post was submitted on 14 Aug 2023
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Is it really a reason for pride to run a certain kernel?
If you are managing to successfully use TempleOS as a daily driver, I think you can be allowed to be proud of that.
I run the mainline kernel. The pride part is my system is built in a reproducible way, with all of the packages versioned and having versioned dependencies.
For example, my wine is from the stable channel, but the rest are from the unstable channel, but there are no conflicts because the dependencies are not installed globally
I see it more as pride in the community and administrators. Plenty of distros are complete passion projects and aren't undeserving of pride.
Maybe if you backport hardware support (including x86_64) and bug fixes manually from mainline to 2.4 and compile it as a 64-bit kernel with GCC-2.95.3 for a Ryzen. That'd pretty much get you whatever stickers you wanted. 🤣