Comment by anthk

>TL;DR: Real-time Linux finally merged into mainline after 18+ years. Good for robots, not your desktop.

Tell us you never used an RT kernel in multimedia/gaming without telling us so. The difference can be astounding.

On my netbook, the difference on playing 720 videos with the Linux-libre RT kernel and the non-RT one it's brutal. Either 30FPS videos, or 10FPS at best.