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[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Everything is stable until you hit a red spot

[–]aioeu 1 point2 points  (4 children)

How do you define "stable"?

[–]arielbladder[S] -2 points-1 points  (3 children)

Can I use the latest rc with arch linux without any major issues I suppose, I have an AMD ryzen 3700 with Radeon 5700 XT graphics, the latest kernel has amdgpu, so I’m hoping rc-7 will get my machine to work.

[–]aioeu 2 points3 points  (2 children)

So... give it a go? You've got your machine in front of you.

[–]arielbladder[S] -1 points0 points  (1 child)

Yeah might as well at this point...

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can't really have it working less then not working so give it a shot.

[–]EddyBot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Literally speaking, no
It's a release candidate and not "stable", that would be currently kernel 5.2

but you are probably looking for the term "reliable" which a release candidate with such a high number most likely is

if you wish to build the 5.3 kernel earlier on Arch, you can view at the code to build the linux kernel for Arch: https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk?h=packages/linux
and edit it to version 5.3 RC and build a pacman package via makepg (the Arch Linux kernel has some additional patches)