My experience is the opposite. I run mainline starting with -rc1 on my gaming pc, its been literally flawless for me since I switched to an AMD RX 7900 XT about two years ago. Ten years ago there was a 50/50 chance -rc1 would fail to boot on at least one of my machines, I can't remember the last time that happened.
Look at all the syzbot automation on the kernel mailing list, as an example of how the process continues to improve.
IMHO the best Linux experience really is to run bleeding edge versions of everything. I wasted a great deal more time backporting patches before I started doing that, than I have spent chasing new bugs since.
Look at all the syzbot automation on the kernel mailing list, as an example of how the process continues to improve.
IMHO the best Linux experience really is to run bleeding edge versions of everything. I wasted a great deal more time backporting patches before I started doing that, than I have spent chasing new bugs since.