Requesting Slackware vs new hardware advice
by snackwhere from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6Q8HP)
Hi, I'm looking for advice on running Slackware on a desktop that's got a i9-13900K and an AMD 7900 XTX.
The 5.15 kernel that Slackware 15 comes with is too old to support the hardware well. I had been lazily running current, but current's moved to the 6.10 kernel, which is too new for the ZFS from slackbuilds.org, so I have to pick between running 15 with a newer kernel, or running current with an older kernel, or building ZFS myself instead of my current fire-and-forget procedure. I'd kind of like to get off current anyways. Spectacle, of all things, seems to be broken.
Which of these approaches do you figure will give me the least grief / fewest hours of admin work over time? I probably won't build very many custom packages, and I'm used to leaning on slackpkg+ and sbopkg queue files.
The 5.15 kernel that Slackware 15 comes with is too old to support the hardware well. I had been lazily running current, but current's moved to the 6.10 kernel, which is too new for the ZFS from slackbuilds.org, so I have to pick between running 15 with a newer kernel, or running current with an older kernel, or building ZFS myself instead of my current fire-and-forget procedure. I'd kind of like to get off current anyways. Spectacle, of all things, seems to be broken.
Which of these approaches do you figure will give me the least grief / fewest hours of admin work over time? I probably won't build very many custom packages, and I'm used to leaning on slackpkg+ and sbopkg queue files.