zen-kernel VS linux

Linux is configurable. If you don't want it to freeze up, configure it so it wont https://github.com/zen-kernel/zen-kernel

What do you mean fingers in the pie? And for liquorix the four people are only the ones involved in the packaging, you'll notice that they just include one huge monolithic patch here https://github.com/damentz/liquorix-package/tree/6.1/master/linux-liquorix/debian/patches/zen and to see what is inside that and whose fingers are in there you need to look into https://github.com/zen-kernel/zen-kernel and you have exactly the same situation as with xanmod with your 13k contributors.

Find the source here.

Officially supported kernels Community support on forum and bug reporting is available for officially supported kernels. Stable — Vanilla Linux kernel and modules, with a few patches applied. https://www.kernel.org/ || linux Hardened — A security-focused Linux kernel applying a set of hardening patches to mitigate kernel and userspace exploits. It also enables more upstream kernel hardening features than linux. https://github.com/anthraxx/linux-hardened || linux-hardened Longterm — Long-term support (LTS) Linux kernel and modules. https://www.kernel.org/ || linux-lts Zen Kernel — Result of a collaborative effort of kernel hackers to provide the best Linux kernel possible for everyday systems. Some more details can be found on https://liquorix.net (which provides kernel binaries based on Zen for Debian). https://github.com/zen-kernel/zen-kernel || linux-zen

linux5.18-zen $: cd patches patches $: wget https://github.com/zen-kernel/zen-kernel/releases/download/v5.18.11-zen1/v5.18.11-zen1.patch.xz patches $: xz -d v5.18.11-zen1.patch.xz

I just found a comment on the zen-kernel which confirms my suspicions, so I guess I'm not going crazy :p

Liquorix isn't the Zen kernel, but it's a set of patches on top of Linux, including Zen among others.

https://github.com/zen-kernel/zen-kernel

Sometimes, no It's for not very popular packages For example: * Linux zen kernel now 5.15.3 instead of 5.16.3 * bottles is 2021.7.28-treviso-2 instead of 2022.1.28-trento

Interesting! I've used Linux Mint for the last 5+ years (and am using the Xanmod kernel, which is on 6.6), but have always been Pop OS curious. This increases my curiosity, I may have to give it a go on my laptop.

https://xanmod.org/

Generally, Arch is the better platform for getting various kernel versions, but there's always stuff like Xanmod which is easy to do in any distro. Worst case, could always use linux-tkg script to build your own kernel - with that kind of hardware it shouldn't take long for the kernel to be built.

The ArchWiki has some tips that can help tuning your system to squeeze more performance: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/gaming

This launcher does help too: https://github.com/FeralInteractive/gamemode

On top of that, you can use a patched kernel like: https://xanmod.org/

You can check support status for games here: https://www.protondb.com/

If you run games via Proton with DXVK, you can use the environment variable DXVK_HUD=1 to show a HUD with an FPS meter. Some others prefer mangohud.

Setting your CPU frequency scaling governor and GPU to performance mode also helps.

you can install a custom kernel (xanmod) (liquorix) on linux mint which is what i have on my laptop and it runs fine.

Yeah. When I want to get the latest mainline kernel I sometimes make a new build using LLVM+Clang and for lulz, I build the source from the XanMod repo with a config that's a mix of Microsoft's & XanMod's (+ whatever else I want to enable, like F2FS support). It works.

Custom kernel (Xanmod / Liquorix)

You can use https://xanmod.org it uses the latest kernel and can installed on every Debian based distro.