Guys I truly don’t mean to spam the community but these are legit questions. Yesterday I posted about linux compatibility and computers and every single person gave me knowledge to use and you’re all awesome.
Now my question is, I will undoubtedly be purchasing an older machine, would an older but good running machine still be able to install the latest kernels or versions of distros or are you limited to older versions only, based on the era of your laptop or is it really about the hardware you have? I know ram, disk space, basic stuff like that matters with distros, but I know that will not be a problem. I guess I’m thinking beyond that like processors. are older processors or anything else hold certain machines from being compatible with the newest and greatest kernels? Thanks!
“Linux Kernel 4.14.8 (Dec 2017)” - Would this be the “very recent”?
4.14 is close to EOL, but it is still very well supported.
That video came out in January 2018, so at the time it was “very recent.” I don’t think anything would have changed significantly since then.
As far as I know. nothing done in that video would be impossible on the latest kernel. Everything would compile and run comparably.