So I’ve been iso live testing Manjaro KDE Plasma lately and it looks very polished.

On the other hand, there is a negative vibe towards it.

Why the hate?

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    11 months ago

    These aren’t all versions per se but mostly variants, versions and versions of variants. For example, we have packaged the xanmod kernel which is a modified kernel optimised for desktop use but it has two variants: Main and LTS. We have packaged both.

    Here are the names of all of our kernels currently to give you an idea (as a JSON list):

    [
      "linuxPackages",
      "linuxPackages-libre",
      "linuxPackages-rt",
      "linuxPackages-rt_latest",
      "linuxPackages_4_14",
      "linuxPackages_4_19",
      "linuxPackages_4_19_hardened",
      "linuxPackages_4_9",
      "linuxPackages_5_10",
      "linuxPackages_5_10_hardened",
      "linuxPackages_5_15",
      "linuxPackages_5_15_hardened",
      "linuxPackages_5_18",
      "linuxPackages_5_19",
      "linuxPackages_5_4",
      "linuxPackages_5_4_hardened",
      "linuxPackages_6_0",
      "linuxPackages_6_1",
      "linuxPackages_6_1_hardened",
      "linuxPackages_6_2",
      "linuxPackages_6_3",
      "linuxPackages_6_4",
      "linuxPackages_6_5",
      "linuxPackages_6_5_hardened",
      "linuxPackages_6_6",
      "linuxPackages_custom",
      "linuxPackages_custom_tinyconfig_kernel",
      "linuxPackages_hardened",
      "linuxPackages_latest",
      "linuxPackages_latest-libre",
      "linuxPackages_latest_hardened",
      "linuxPackages_latest_xen_dom0",
      "linuxPackages_latest_xen_dom0_hardened",
      "linuxPackages_lqx",
      "linuxPackages_rpi0",
      "linuxPackages_rpi02w",
      "linuxPackages_rpi1",
      "linuxPackages_rpi2",
      "linuxPackages_rpi3",
      "linuxPackages_rpi4",
      "linuxPackages_rt_5_10",
      "linuxPackages_rt_5_15",
      "linuxPackages_rt_5_4",
      "linuxPackages_rt_6_1",
      "linuxPackages_testing",
      "linuxPackages_testing_bcachefs",
      "linuxPackages_xanmod",
      "linuxPackages_xanmod_latest",
      "linuxPackages_xanmod_stable",
      "linuxPackages_xen_dom0",
      "linuxPackages_xen_dom0_hardened",
      "linuxPackages_zen"
    ]
    

    (Note that some of these are aliases; linuxPackages_latest is currently linuxPackages_6_6 for example.)

    Each of these has the following nvidiaPackages (modulo incompatibilities):

    [
      "beta",
      "dc",
      "dc_520",
      "latest",
      "legacy_340",
      "legacy_390",
      "legacy_470",
      "production",
      "stable",
      "vulkan_beta"
    ]
    

    (Again, some of these are aliases.)

    This is useful to have because users might have hardware constraints. It’s not hard to imagine a scenario where a user might have a WiFi chip that only works with kernel ABIs < 5.4 and require the 470 nvidia driver for their old GPU. Packaging just the latest kernel and just the latest Nvidia driver would make this user unable to use their system.