Tips For Customizing Your Linux Kernel

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In this video I give you some tips for customizing and working with multiple kernels on your Linux distro.
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@guyinacage 2 жыл бұрын

i dont even use linux but Winry was in the thumbnail

@vgg175 2 жыл бұрын

that means shes doing her job

@Gnohio 2 жыл бұрын

tfw no qt mechanic gf

@tylerdean980 2 жыл бұрын

@@Gnohio I prefer GTK mechanic gf

@FlooferLand 2 ай бұрын

BASED

@guyinacage 2 ай бұрын

@@FlooferLand i have to confess that im now a linux user

@Ganerrr 2 жыл бұрын

#1 thing to enable is initram/kernel compression (and honestly build in some modules into your initram), literally I boot in like 7 seconds vs like 30 now lol

@unLinuxeroMas 2 жыл бұрын

how do you do that

@rangeramg 2 жыл бұрын

i don't even have an initramfs, i don't need it

@notalostnumber8660 2 жыл бұрын

If you have almost everything as a module, with only the basic necessities as built ins, you can boot way faster.

@lsudo 2 жыл бұрын

7 secs? tf that's just the amount of time it takes my grub menu to just show up

@user-rn1xh8rw6h 2 жыл бұрын

@@mofik26 What settings did you change in your BIOS to get GRUB to boot in 1 second?

@boycedavis6639 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Kenny for doing the most. Your videos have helped me so much in gaining maintaining control/ownership of the technology that I use. Keep spreading the knowledge.

@callisoncaffrey 2 жыл бұрын

I'm still behind on everything. Still haven't installed gentoo. Downloaded the iso and booted it, but that's as far as I got. That was like two months ago ... I'll get there though!

@fortu6066 2 жыл бұрын

@Depp shut up bot

@izimsi 2 жыл бұрын

Just go as the handbook says, it's quite foolproof

@GrimMetropolis 2 жыл бұрын

You're in the right place to get the info when you need it. Cheers!✌

@RadikAlice 2 жыл бұрын

Go at your own pace, life is not a race after all

@RadikAlice 2 жыл бұрын

@Spada While that's true, nothing wrong with tinkering and learning along the way I'd say that's a quintessential part of the Linux experience, only second to borking your system in some way. Failure is the best teacher

@PterippiGaming 2 жыл бұрын

Oh. This press a number to jump to found config record is huge. I spent so much time looking up those records. Especially some USB drivers nested 4-5 menus deep with each menus spanning many pages in almost random order. Thank you!

@mhadjih 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks a bunch! Nice video, nice tips! Most people think that Gentoo takes too long because of the compiling, but they don't realize that when you have plenty RAM, you can compile in TMPFS. Might be a good thing to explain, because it'll save your SSD from too many cycles while compiling and speeds things up considerably.

@chonglers1513 2 жыл бұрын

Nice! Thanks for following through on going more in depth on the kernel. I was waiting for this after watching your latest gentoo install several times

@falconstudios2311 2 жыл бұрын

I really appreciate the tutorials you put out and the easy-to-digest language you make use of. Thanks for the good info!

@alexlopez5800 2 жыл бұрын

Dude! Thank you! I've been looking for a vid like this!

@northpoint1039 2 жыл бұрын

I used to compile my own kernel back in the day when only a creative sound blaster card had drivers - cir. 2001 . Im pretty happy with the default kernel settings now. Running Mint, Rocky, Debian.

@adialbano5499 2 жыл бұрын

Rocky vs debian for home server?

@northpoint1039 2 жыл бұрын

@@adialbano5499 Not sure if my reply went thru - Debian for sure.

@adialbano5499 2 жыл бұрын

@@northpoint1039 thank you for the reply 👍👍

@goodoldmate5548 2 жыл бұрын

Enemy of the western civilisation

@northpoint1039 2 жыл бұрын

@Onésimo Ortega Mexican?

@nocturnalnights27 2 жыл бұрын

Been using Linux since Mandrake when I was back in high school, never configured my own Linux kernel. Add one to the bucket list.

@bigiron4018 2 жыл бұрын

I never knew you could use number keys in search. That’s awesome Thank you

@sneakyshadoo22 2 жыл бұрын

I’ve been waiting for just this video! Nice!

@user-yi4ef2gk1o 3 ай бұрын

You are the man, we need more people like you. I imagine a world where we write our own software ground up all your own firmware, kernels, OS, drivers. I would also like to imagine making our own hardware with the lithography process done in a fab, everything open source!!!

@ivanp7 2 ай бұрын

communist detected on american soil

@derrekvanee4567 2 ай бұрын

@@ivanp7the fsck? Rm -fra IvanTheOrk:root /* /.*

@qCJLbggG4IWAY9nTH6o 2 жыл бұрын

8:00 you can also do `olddefconfig` to set new symbols to their default value EDIT: or `localmodconfig` to update your current config disabling modules not loaded

@n0kodoko143 2 жыл бұрын

As always, this is awesome Kenny!

@lanpartylandlord6123 2 жыл бұрын

finally its here. how to customize my linux kernel

@xp8969 2 жыл бұрын

Lmfao, well played

@johnwpierce3 2 жыл бұрын

Conrad, friend & fellow portage user, been running custom vanilla kernels since 4eva!

@alexwexov4298 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing, we need videos like this.

@snap_oversteer 2 жыл бұрын

Good old times when I had to compile custom kernel on my netbook overnight to get latest mesa drivers for hardware video acceleration. It had little AMD C60 APU and 1GB of soldered RAM.

@testacals 2 жыл бұрын

Your thumbnails are great. Specially the anime pics.

@abitterberry2149 2 жыл бұрын

Definitely going to try that... in a VM... spamming snapshots before any "confirm" prompt

@Tachi107 2 жыл бұрын

I generally prefer to manually delete the config options that I want to tweak in .config with my text editor and then run `make oldconfig` so that I can manually choose to enable or disable that specific option. Allows me to have greater flexibility compared to `make menuconfig`, and I can also recycle .config files between kernel releases (I use Debian btw)

@saramaeks9826 2 жыл бұрын

Hey kenny, you should make a bot or set a filter or something that automatically removes all comments that have the string “finally it’s here” in them. There are a crazy amount of bots in all your comment sections and it’s extremely irritating

@diegonayalazo 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing

@CrazyFanaticMan 2 жыл бұрын

Im finna bust with all this content you keep dropping

@meleewaluigi1998 2 жыл бұрын

Based Winry in thumbnail

@fernandogurgel 2 жыл бұрын

Looking for this comment.

@szaszm_ 2 жыл бұрын

You can use `make oldconfig` to upgrade your config file from an older kernel version.

@matejkohout1289 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks thats really useful, my distro's kernel has fsync disabled

@quitting_the_internet 2 жыл бұрын

thank you sir

@soapybsuds 2 жыл бұрын

i love how you put winry in the thumbnail

@KennyBentley7 2 ай бұрын

Wow, so your name is Kenny, too, huh? That's cool. I loved your Gentoo anime meme too.

@holycheeseduck4729 2 жыл бұрын

Did Kenny ever actually release his dotfiles/config for DWM? Because honestly I *love* his layout and I've not been able to get it right, or even close to it

@averagegeek3957 2 жыл бұрын

He released it on his alt account. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rtSCeNSKktXdqoE.html

@septim2315 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah check his vids on dwm

@yeahok9165 2 жыл бұрын

It's on his github

@Kid420 2 жыл бұрын

I just love this community.

@YannMetalhead 2 жыл бұрын

Good video

@vimproved 2 жыл бұрын

What dwm bar are you using? Looks really nice!

@kvykimo 2 жыл бұрын

good mornng sirs

@jameshughes3014 2 жыл бұрын

Would you please consider doing a video on the Trusted Platform Module since windows 11 is gonna force people to use one? I've no idea what risks there might be but i really don't like having hardware on my system that some big company can use but i cant.

@betabenja 2 жыл бұрын

I think I was wanting to watch this to know what customisations you'd do, apart from a bunch of instructions required to install a certain driver; like.. do you have a top 10 config optimisations to give me a feel of what type of customisations are optional improvements, not just necessities for running a module you like

@RadikAlice 2 жыл бұрын

Wondered for a while how do you even access that menu after seeing it on a few of your videos Needless to say I feel silly. But hey, always good to learn something new.

@qdmc12 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@StiekemeHenk 2 жыл бұрын

Full metal alchemist if I'm right. Don't watch a lot but that was a fun one! (OG not the newer one)

@NawidN 2 жыл бұрын

Watch the newer one too. It's very different but in a good way.

@thedanmethenyshow.6004 2 жыл бұрын

I've thought about Gentoo because it really would be fun to customize everything. With how I am on top of being crazy busy right now it would probably take me 5 days to two weeks lol. Maybe two days with the right gap of time.

@blubaustin1 2 жыл бұрын

It's really not that bad. It's allot of copying and pasting things. And if you really have to, use a genkernel.

@saltdad5263 Жыл бұрын

honestly in my experience a lot of the process of installing gentoo is just waiting for stuff to compile, so if you were to time things right you could just continue to go about your life as your cpu does its work.

@Interpause Жыл бұрын

its been a few months. im now running a custom clang-compiled kernel with xanmod patches, custom stuff enabled like zswap, and nearly all the unneeded modules disabled using modprobedb. i think i can say im a linux novice now

@nxnu2119 2 жыл бұрын

Valid valid real talk

@frzen 2 жыл бұрын

I have a massive kernel shaped hole in my understanding... I have to reinstall drivers for my dvb-s card nearly every time I do a dist-upgrade on debian

@6we 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!!

@ZeroGDucks Жыл бұрын

Yesterday I compiled a kernel for the first time in 10 years, 6.1.15 on a laptop I'm not familiar with. I used ChatGPT to ask what kind of hardware comes default with laptop, what drivers match the hardware, and if any unfamiliar drivers were relevant to my laptop. The kernel compiled with only two errors stopping me. What a world...

@radio_electronics4047 Жыл бұрын

It might make sense to tell the audience where that "linux" folder (that is supposed to be on any distro) is located. Since you don't have the full path in your PS1 it is impossible to tell. (I don't get why people don't put the full path into their prompt...)

@izimsi 2 жыл бұрын

I've build the kernel a couple of dozen times and I never figured out that you can go straight to the found option using the search result index...

@r41lgunn3rhc 2 жыл бұрын

Watching this while my gentoo is compiling :~)

@dermond 2 жыл бұрын

I'm a simple man, I see Winry Rockbell, I click

@soubs242 2 жыл бұрын

:) good post.

@Wizzardo 2 жыл бұрын

Do a video or a series of videos going through all the options in makeconfig.

@tylerdean980 2 жыл бұрын

Based Fullmetal Alchemist thumbnail

@rashie Жыл бұрын

👍👍

@oraz. Жыл бұрын

All I know is I want to add -march=native but I'm not sure if I need to export a variable just in the terminal, or edit a flag in the generated Makefile or what.

@jordan2869 Жыл бұрын

I have been trying to edit my .config file for the last 2 days. It is so frustrating. I read the book linux kernel in a nutshell, and have compiled the kernel like 10 times. It shows up in grub and then when it gets to Loading initial ramdisk_ ...it does nothing...so I start over. I just want to edit the .config file to enable /proc/config so i can install a read/write UFS module. I tried to use make oldconfig to keep my current working config settings, yet nothing is working. 8 hours staring at compiling and trying again is soooo frustrating.

@oddstap6976 2 жыл бұрын

Window users who hate Linux for some reason : "All Linux users are overweight losers who live in their parents basements" Linux community pointing to mental outlaw : "He's our champion"

@mukyumukyun 2 жыл бұрын

"imagine compiling your operating system yourself lol, waste of cpu power and time" "imagine the only customization you can do is change your desktop wallpaper lol, you can't even uninstall edge"

@More_Row 2 жыл бұрын

Cringiest shit I've read all day.

@GoogleDoesEvil 2 жыл бұрын

Majority of the Linux community supports what DDG, Google, and FF are doing; they're anarchist commies. Not saying AlphaNerd is but the community in the FOSS world really is toxic. It's hard to trust software written by them, and documentation is hard to come by.

@KingKrouch 2 жыл бұрын

@@mukyumukyun you can’t even have a vertical sidebar in Windows 11 (for ultrawide monitors and generally more working space at 16:9) anymore, and you need a third-party patcher software to go back to Windows 10’s taskbar. What a joke of an OS update, ended up reverting to a dual-boot between 10 LTSC and Arch (I’d use Fedora if their NVIDIA GPU drivers were kept up to date, and if I could update the kernel without borking NVIDIA KMS modules). What I needed, another five hours of hunting down installers on Google. Much prefer the repository system, flatpaks, and AURs that Linux offers now, way more convenient outside of setting up game debugging utilities with Steam games and Clip Studio on Wine. I can even make a bash script to install everything I use.

@mukyumukyun 2 жыл бұрын

@@KingKrouch I really like your reasoning with arch, most are just "well, it's the cool kids use nowadays", I actually considering fedora as the latest release came out, but arch (I use endeavouros) is still the best for me just for that aur, *chef kiss* muy bueno

@kernelpanik6723 2 жыл бұрын

Could you do a video on how to customize your Linux kernel for beginners ?

@sldwnr98 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks drake

@prouleau4440 2 жыл бұрын

You mention the importance to make a backup a few times... Do you now about the tool "etckeeper"? That should be installed by default on all distros. 😉

@animepussy8356 2 жыл бұрын

Fellow Winrychad here

@qqq3230 2 жыл бұрын

at the start of video i thought your tshirt is a minecraft item bar lol

@_nom_ 7 ай бұрын

Top tip, disable all security systems except the base. Disable debugging and randomisation. Got some good gains.

@inkbomb675 2 жыл бұрын

Winry Rockbell, Rosie the Riveter flex thumbnail

@knownpenguin7573 2 жыл бұрын

Luke how do you make the voice sound so realistic on the deepfake?

@laplace5317 2 жыл бұрын

Probably just changes the treble or something, not by much.

@anxo_ 2 жыл бұрын

full video tutorial of you customizing your kernel?

@danieleccleston7928 2 жыл бұрын

I did it but my xorg has a fatal server error screens not found idk why still teying to fix

@myt-mat-mil-mit-met-com-trol 2 жыл бұрын

How to configure the kernel when it is going to be hosted as a virtual machine? I suppose menuconfig options on hardware are useless. Is there a link to a comprehensive guide? Apart from gentoo instructions.

@blubaustin1 2 жыл бұрын

Yep menuconfig, look at your lsmod, and build that in. Most of the other modules in drivers could be torn out. Same with anything else you don't need.

@Ribula1 Жыл бұрын

None of the function keys is opening my buos anymore :( And i have to access it bc my kernel updated to a unstable version so my internet doesn't work anymore (at least thats what the ibternet is saying) :(

@saltyowl3229 2 жыл бұрын

Everyone always talks about optimizing the config for your hardware, but I’ve found it pretty difficult to find any sort of decent guides on that. Like what Intel branded technologies are still necessary on a ryzen system because they’re shared and vice versa, or what you can and can’t/should and shouldnt build into the kernel or leave as a module. Had a lot of issues the first time I tried customizing my kernel cause I had tried to just build in everything I knew was necessary for hardware built into the laptop, which ended up causing problems and an unusable kernel. Got grub configured right though so it was easy enough to dodge the fallout but it still wasn’t the best experience, since I had no way to know that building that stuff in would break it

@saltyowl3229 2 жыл бұрын

@Nicolás Agustín Of course, and I do, but some things are unclear and require a lot of searching to figure out what technologies are in use by what hardware. I don't think any of my attempts were broken due to disabling things I shouldn't have, but purely because I tried to bake things into the kernel that had no warning saying they couldn't be. It's just tedious having to check each individual option online, was wondering if there might be a good set of guides anywhere.

@ramosman0469 2 жыл бұрын

@@saltyowl3229 same boat it's hard but that's how we really learn I guess.

@kyzitemelos 2 жыл бұрын

Sean Jean baby boi!!!

@porky1118 2 жыл бұрын

Oh, I know that girl from the thumbnail. I started watching this some days ago.

@lexian5602 2 жыл бұрын

I only just gave up trying to get my first gentoo install to work with a custom kernel. I'm thinking maybe Luke smiths deepfake might be compromised by the glowies.

@HikaruAkitsuki 2 жыл бұрын

When does Gentoo gonna have guided installer?

@alexxen3123 2 жыл бұрын

what is the distro that you are running in the video????

@DevotedGamer1 8 ай бұрын

menuconfig gives make: *** No rule to make target 'menuconfig'. Stop. What is the issue?

@gacherumburu9958 2 жыл бұрын

👍

@JodyBruchon 2 жыл бұрын

I recently had an issue where my oldconfig had a problem being carried forward. On boot, devices would not work, no USB, decompressing packages at boot failed. Took forever to find the problem. The problem was that updating the config disabled NUMA support. Really stupid that they didn't carry that forward more carefully.

@waldolemmer 2 жыл бұрын

I don't have time to watch the video, but here are some tips: - Press z to show/hide entries that are hidden - When searching with /, you can type the number in parentheses to jump to that section - Run `make $(nproc) all modules_install install` to build and install the kernel in one fell swoop - Keep a distribution kernel ready to boot in case your custom kernel stops being bootable

@mercster 9 ай бұрын

Thanks for the video. Not sure why your thumbnail says "hacking"... this is not hacking. :) This is editing the build configuration and compiling a kernel. Back in the early/mid 90s I did it several times a week, because kernel updates were usually significant and they came fast and heavy. (It was also painful, taking about 8 hours on a 33mhz 486 with 4M RAM.) And I am certainly no kernel hacker. Kernel hackers... edit/write code.

@adjusted-bunny 2 жыл бұрын

I just ate spare ribs and and an insane amount of chocolate (I had wine, too).

@FrankieVasquez-yt6gy 5 ай бұрын

I want a fully customized kernel. Just for fun!

@LeLe-pm2pr 2 жыл бұрын

fullmetal alchemist really cool

@sabering9459 2 жыл бұрын

I love linux and gym

@jburnsey88 2 жыл бұрын

Arch BTW

@L0rd_Ba1thazar 2 жыл бұрын

Classic

@MatthewsTech0 2 жыл бұрын

Customize kernel android no root enable virtualization?

@Cyberfoxxy 2 жыл бұрын

And why would I want to poke around in the kernel?

@hansdampf2284 2 жыл бұрын

8:10 this is not the reason. for the .config file from an earlier kernel version it does not matter at all how those menus look like in menuconfig.

@entelin 2 жыл бұрын

Before the kernel had modules I compiled it all the time, selecting only my hardware, etc.

@thexg0d833 2 жыл бұрын

why not just make a script to combine the old and new config and replace the new with the old settings and if a section in the old config can't be find with the new it gets skipped if theres something new in the new config the script will ignore it.

@hansdampf2284 2 жыл бұрын

Please make a video of how to use that .config with savedconfig with the gentoo-kernel package. This is so well thought out on gentoo, I really think we should spread the word