On 06/14/2017 04:36 AM, Anton Aylward wrote:
Skylake didn't work well at all until 4.9, and only really came into its own in 4.10. There are a boat load of new machines coming out with that chipset. Yes, that too. It makes me wonder how many people try installing what amounts to an older kernel from a distribution DVD on a bleeding edge laptop only to have multiple cascading !FAIL!s becuase of reason like this.
Quit a few from my reading the Manjaro forums for the last year. And you are right the fails are usually of a cascading nature where the old LTS kernel works, but cooling, or Video, or shutdown etc. issues end up forcing a kernel swap. One of the very nice things about Manjaro (an arch derivative) is the ease of switching kernels, and switching back again. Most of us do that so rarely that we would be bound to hork it up, but their utility does all the steps, as well as deletion of kernels you no longer want. Of course, that made it so easy that they now provide a boatload of kernels, and they are begging people to get off the EOL kernels so they can drop them. They ride on Arch coattails of course - whereas Leap rides on SLES which has no strong business interest in rushing to the latest kernels or the latest hardware. -- After all is said and done, more is said than done. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org