Linux-hardware.org project based on collected telemetry data for the year defined that rare releases of the most popular Linux-distributions and, As a result, the use of not new cores creates compatibility issues with equipment for 13% of new users.
For example, most new Ubuntu users have been offered Linux 5.4 core in the release of 20.04, which is currently behind the support of equipment from the current core 5.13 more than a year and a half. The best indicators demonstrate rolling-distributions, including Manjaro Linux (during the year the kernels were offered from 5.7 to 5.13), but they are behind popularity from the leader distributions.
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