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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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What happens when Linus dies/retires? (lemmy.nz)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Will we all be fucked or is there a Linus 2?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I have doubts you would see any performance increases, and if you change your hardware you'll be in for a tough time but it would be a fun learning experience!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Thats a question I have. I have two laptops, a shitty amd ryzen thinkpad t495 and a fancy soon-to-be-corebooted Clevo NV41MZ with i7-11** cpu. Pretty crazy performance difference although the chassis and keyboard suck. But if I get the keyboard I want to simply swap drives, as there is nothing fancy, this should just work right?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Um.. I'm going to choose to phone a friend on this one...

Oh, ..I have no friends who would know.

My instinct is you're going to need to journalctl -b and see what modprobe and udev are up to.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Swapping CPU manufacturers entirely? I'd just start my kernel config fresh. Pull up the old one next to a new (default ) one and go down line by line. Odds are there are at most a few flags that would need to be changed, but it's a good chance to reevaluate your previous decisions too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I havent made any specific kernel changes, its just standard Fedora :D