with kernel development getting faster and faster each day, and 5.9 being tagged EOL only a few weeks after it was introduced, I am just wondering:
Is it still worth to upgrade to kernel 5.10 or should one better wait until 5.11 or even 5.12?
Looks like this is going to occur shortly, if I understand correctly.
I will go ahead and switch to Kernel 5.10 since the 5.9 is now EOL and will shortly be removed from Manjaro. Since when that happens, it will be hard to get updates.
Please forgive me if you do know this already, but it is recommend to keep a LTS Kernel installed.
Yes, 5.10 is an LTS kernel.
If it’s working ok for you (always have minimum 2 kernel versions installed to switch in case of problems), you should use that one.
So 5.4 is supported 3 years longer than (the supposedly newer) 5.10?
That might appear peculiar to at least some people not so familiar with kernel development
That’s encouraging news.
Even better: As the Nvidia driver v.390 is being made available for the 5.10 kernel, it even runs on my ancient machine with a Geforce GTX 550 Ti card.
Thanks a lot to all the friendly people who made this possible