Linux needs developers developers developers developers developers developers developers. Notably gamedevs. And kde needs to be default. Osx is only popular in a couple countries.
Been a while since i built a kernel. Way i did it was (as root):
download from kernel.org into /usr/src/ (wget https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/linux-6.4.3.tar.xz for example)
cd /usr/src/ and tar xvf the-downloaded-tarball
rm linux - it’s a link to kernel source, so that programs can compile against the kernel (rarely necessary)
ln -s linux-downloaded-one linux - makes new link to downloaded kernel
cp linux-installed-kernel/.config linux/ - copy the old config to the new
cd linux then make oldconfig - a lot of questions about all the new options, that should include the new arc drivers if they are not included into old ones
make menuconfig or make nconfig - are TUI-s to configure the kernel. nconfig has a search (F8)
make bzImage modules - to compile the kernel and modules (basically shared libs)
make modules_install - copies modules to /lib/modules/version (important as most drivers are modules)
cp arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-version - copy the kernel core to /boot
edit /etc/lilo.conf - if you use grub then idk
go to bottom, copy the whole block including image = … , keep the original to have a bootable kernel
change /boot/vmlinuz to whatever i called mine
run lilo
reboot
reorder lilo boot order if i forgot to before, and lilo then reboot again to confirm
Not the official slackware way, but… actually slack is the slackware way. Have borked my system plenty of times and had to dig up the install cd/usb to fix it.
I got myself an expensive-ish rx 480 because nvidia said they will support vulkan on it. They never implemented vulkan for fermi. Never again will i buy from greedy liars.
Linus is talking about a different thing entirely. And while their drivers were always great, there is much more to the story then just how well they render 3d.
On slackware-current. Latest kde, mesa, fairly new lts kernel. All vanilla software (with security patches). Xfce, and more. No official gnome. Everything works, simple system. No official package dependency resolution, install a lot of packages recommended (they in groups). Good for me.
Dota (1, in warcraft 3) would have a hitch every once in a while, and i’d die if it was in a fight. Cause was swap writing to disk, that you can’t turn off in winxp. I was already looking at linux, so i said f it. Bdw warcraft 3 runs well on linux if you add -opengl.