A kernel that fits my hardware and supports things the original kernel doesn't. Then again, i use gentoo.
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What did the original kernel not support?
Having / on ZFS, but that went into an initrd i think... don't remember, but not hardware related.
LPIC-2 certification
I'm running a custom kernel on my Arch laptop. It's a little faster, a little smaller and a little quite more secure. I'm also running custom kernel which enables adiantum encryption on old phone with postmarketOS.
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Filesystem level encryption enabled on RHEL. For some damn reason, they turn it off in their kernel.
Better access to tools like ebpf and xdp.