My personal journey to unlock more performance on Linux - Part 2: Tweaking the Linux Kernel Welcome back to the second part of my Linux Gaming Tweaks series. If you missed the first part, head over here to get a general overview and learn more about my hardware and Linux distribution choices. In this episode, I will cover the single most important item on my tuning list, tweaking the Linux Kernel. Hence I will talk today about the Xanmod Kernel, additional patches I carry around to unlock an even better gaming experience, tweaks to my Kernel configuration, my Kernel command line and the compiler flags which I use to compile my Kernel. Unlike Windows, the Linux Kernel itself contains almost all of your hardware drivers (with notable exceptions, e.g. Nvidia's GPU driver). Hardware drivers are fundamental to get your PC up and running, changes in this area are also very performance-sensitive, beware that some tweaks might have an effect to the stability and security or even power usa