So the other day I wanted to try the latest release of Manjaro Gnome (18.0) so I did a backup of my home directory/sub-directories and installed Manjaro.
I am familiar with Manjaro albeit the XFCE version. It was my OS prior to going to Pop! It installed easily and I fired it right up and began configuring the things I use most frequently. But honestly? While there are some aspects of the implementation of Gnome I missed, it didn't really offer any better performance or features compared to Pop! So today I wiped it and reverted to Pop!_os, restored my backups (or at least part of them, game saves mostly since I already store my major folders on other disks) and then went a little overboard.
Well, not REALLY overboard but, I decided I wanted to try and update the kernel. This felt risky since I believe System76 does some kernel tweaking, but I figured why not? So I installed uvuu, selected the latest linux kernel and clicked install (and also had the grub configuration rewritten). When it completed (without error) it told me to reboot. I did, and well... in all honesty I thought it would fail miserably and I would have to reinstall Pop!_os but... it worked! I am now running (per uname -rsv) Linux 4.19.5-041905-generic #201811271131 SMP Tue Nov 27 16:33:46 UTC 2018.
It has the module[s] for Nvidia drivers, my network seems to be fine, and I could almost swear memory usage is down on average, at least from what I remember from HTOP over the previous weeks. But without recorded data that is hearsay.
I will have to play around with it for a week to see how it really does. But so far so good.
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