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notanapple@lemm.ee 5 weeks agoIt depends. On older devices there isn’t much testing of newer versions of the kernel so they can be more broken than an older version.
Case in point, recently on an old laptop (~12 years) I noticed video performance was real bad which I later found out was due to modern distros defaulting to the iHD intel graphics driver. But iHD is only supported from 5th gen (Broadwell) onward. So, on older devices anything depending on the graphics driver for hardware acceleration (like video decode) fails and falls back to software rendering.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
The kernel scheduler is much better in newer versions
kusivittula@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
and feels like it got better recently. when i used kernel 6.2 on my (high end) hardware, everything froze when copying a large amount of files. on 6.8 there’s just a bit of delay. still not as good as I’d like, but maybe some day.