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Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.14 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: dfbfe991-a59a-49ee-bcb4-c2bdd327f512 X-Archives-Hash: 3327140c70426ec3a8e28c1fd2b046eb Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 12/11/2022 23:37, Dale wrote: >> Usually, I try to update about once a year.  I don't change hardware >> much. > > The main reason I suggested LTS is because that, *when* you decide to > do a @world update, you will get the latest LTS of the same main > version you're already using. For example you'll go from 5.15.20 to > 5.15.78. And that means you won't have to bother with an array of > endless "make oldconfig" questions. There'll be like one or two at > most, which is trivial to deal with. > > I've been using LTS kernels for years now, and I never looked back. > "make oldconfig" usually doesn't say anything, making it a > ridiculously fast and no-brainer update, and yet I get the latest > bugfixes and security fixes. > > It just works :-) > > > Thing is, I may go a year, sometimes more, without updating the kernel.  If I rebooted often, I could see using a LTS kernel.  If a kernel can run for months with no problems, it's stable enough for me.  Plus my hardware works. I have even built a kernel but never actually booted it.  By the time I get around to rebooting, I've had to build another kernel.  I generally always work from a known stable config tho.  The only reason I wouldn't is if I build a new system and have to start from scratch.  I've also had times when I had to update because my video drivers wouldn't build with a older kernel version that I'm running.  That doesn't happen to often but I recall running into that at least once.  Either way, biggest question was if there was some known breakage between my old version and a newer version.  Maybe the one I tried just had some weird problem that only affected me or I just missed something during the oldconfig.  I wish I could recall the error.  Who knows on that.  Thanks. Dale :-)  :-)