I know the current official kernel build was a great update, I however am not using 5 year old hardware, I had recently bought the AM5 platform ( AMD 7900X ) and that's what I have been using since, the 'newer' kernels that have been released from 6.10+ have to my comprehension better compatibility with newer hardware, and 6.14 got some interesting updated too.

I have been a GNU/Linux user since about 24 years back, but I'm a casual user, I never dived into the whole switching to kernels or building my own, I started of using Slackware, and ended up using Debian based distro's, now I jump between Ubuntu Derivatives, Fedora or Arch. I have had lots of bad luck when it comes to tinkering with the Kernel myself, so I more or less stopped tinkering with Linux as a whole because of a lot of unwanted crashes etc, so nowadays I just wait for a stable release, It's easy to just install a new VM to sit in, but in the back of my head I'm still thinking, the host system has an old kernel, and everything goes through that kernel, regardless of if I have made passthroughs or not.

So I'm wondering when unRAID will have their next big kernel update, is there a lot of work patching it to work with unRAID, or is there a guide that takes babysteps in how to not crash your unRAID install and upgrade your kernel to a newer? I haven't used Slackware in ages, and if I have comprehended it right, unRAID is based on Slack. I just don't think it's the most intelligent option for me to just try and update the kernel myself, if I want a stable and reliable system.

6 minutes ago, Querzion said:

I know the current official kernel build was a great update, I however am not using 5 year old hardware, I had recently bought the AM5 platform ( AMD 7900X ) and that's what I have been using since, the 'newer' kernels that have been released from 6.10+ have to my comprehension better compatibility with newer hardware, and 6.14 got some interesting updated too.

I have been a GNU/Linux user since about 24 years back, but I'm a casual user, I never dived into the whole switching to kernels or building my own, I started of using Slackware, and ended up using Debian based distro's, now I jump between Ubuntu Derivatives, Fedora or Arch. I have had lots of bad luck when it comes to tinkering with the Kernel myself, so I more or less stopped tinkering with Linux as a whole because of a lot of unwanted crashes etc, so nowadays I just wait for a stable release, It's easy to just install a new VM to sit in, but in the back of my head I'm still thinking, the host system has an old kernel, and everything goes through that kernel, regardless of if I have made passthroughs or not.

So I'm wondering when unRAID will have their next big kernel update, is there a lot of work patching it to work with unRAID, or is there a guide that takes babysteps in how to not crash your unRAID install and upgrade your kernel to a newer? I haven't used Slackware in ages, and if I have comprehended it right, unRAID is based on Slack. I just don't think it's the most intelligent option for me to just try and update the kernel myself, if I want a stable and reliable system.

6.12 is in 7.1, Challenge with newer kernels that are not LTS they go EOL very quickly.