I dont know if this is the correct place to ask this question, but is it possible to install the Linux-Libre kernel in my Manjaro machine? Could I go back to my default kernel if things don’t work out? If so, how?

I would say that I gnu/linux for the ethical reasons so the less propietary stuff the better right? I only use my machine for gaming. I have an AMD card, wired peripherials and an ethernet connection so I think drivers won’t be too much of an issue. I’d call myself a Linux noob, so if you could point or give me a step by step guide I would appreciate it very much.

As far as I got by myself was the download section, but I dont really know what to download and what to do after that.

Thank you very much uwu

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    3 years ago

    Why not just use a free distribution?
    There are guides on the internet for custom kernels, but it would seem so much easier to just install parabola or one of the others.

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      3 years ago

      It sounds as too much of a hassle switching your whole distribution just to change one thing. I wouldn’t know how to distrohop either. But maybe sometime

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        3 years ago

        I guess…Although, I think building a custom kernel would be more work than using something pre-made. But, I am known to be lazy. Although I don’t have the need, I do want to build a linux kernel, just for the learning experience.