@Terry
Be careful with guides that might be out of date, or for a different distro. Also, why do you need to change swappiness? Or is this about something else now?

@white_male @Terry
Something tells me he's new to Linux. Last thing he needs is experimenting with unofficial kernels.

@white_male @Terry
A distro ships with a certain kernal by default for a reason. If the low latency kernel was the better choice even for beginners, it would have been installed by default, and we wouldn't have been having this conversation.

Also, fuck Ubuntu.

@white_male @Terry
What's next, are you gonna recommend him use vim?

@white_male @Terry
Honestly I'm surprised you didn't tell him to install Arch or Gentoo.

@white_male @Terry
Let a fucking beginner learn how things work in his own pace. Don't push unnecessary bullshit on him. You'll just drive people away from Linux, you god damned idiot.

@white_male @Terry@bae.st @Terry@poa.st
His issue is not the fucking kernel everyone else on his distro uses. Stop being a moron. You don't need a low latency kernel unless you do audio processing stuff, and it doesn't sound like that's what he's looking for.

@white_male @Terry@bae.st @Terry@poa.st
I have a 8 year old desktop that is doing just fine without a special kernel. I'd say that's old enough. HIS ISSUE IS NOT THE KERNEL.

@white_male @Terry@bae.st @Terry@poa.st
You're despicable, and the reason Linux is incapable of becoming a Windows replacement.

@white_male @Terry@bae.st @Terry@poa.st
The butthurt is that you're forcing a beginner to change things in his OS that he likely doesn't understand. And when something finally goes wrong, and borks his system, you'll just say "oops" and jump ship, with no one left to clean the mess. And you know what happens to the average beginner left in this spot? They go back to user friendly Windows. Congrats!

@white_male @Terry@bae.st @Terry@poa.st
I have seen plenty of Ubuntu upgrades go wrong. Fuck Ubuntu.

And it's not about this upgrade going wrong now, it's about you changing his install on your whim, and leaving him in a position where he'll be even more confused about how Linux works. You can't have him change thing after thing in his system and expect him to be able to keep track of things or understand any of it. He probably doesn't even know what a kernel is, and you're making him change it on a literal whim? Cause you definitely have done no actual troubleshooting.

And morons like you seem to have no clue just how easy it is for a beginner to completely nuke their distro, simply on the account of them not knowing how everything connects and then trying to change something that looks and were told is small.

@white_male @Terry@bae.st @Terry@poa.st
Please stop pretending Linux is perfect and flawless and never fails. It does all the time, especially in the hands of a beginner. Which is precisely why I don't push them into doing things they likely don't understand.

@white_male @Terry@bae.st @Terry@poa.st
>Very much Windows desktop like experience
That's the biggest lie I've ever heard anyone say about Linux, and I've been using it for well over a decade now. Wow. I wish I could literally nuke you.

@white_male @Terry@bae.st @Terry@poa.st
Sure it can work, but you're just leaving them confused, and instead of them actually learning something about the OS, they just become dependent on people fixing their system over and over again, until they finally have enough, and go back to Windows, where they are more likely to understand how to fix it themselves.

That shouldn't be the goal. The goal is for Terry to be able to understand how Linux functions. I'm sure you could talk him into compiling the kernel manually. But he won't understand a thing of it, and when the OS breaks somewhere down the line, will YOU be there to recompile his kernel?

But you'll never get it. Cocky morons like you never do.

Do whatever, but don't come crying to me. Don't talk to me EVER again.