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I've been using Linux since 1993. Really hard to call a favorite. I using 4.19.16 right now (Slackware64-current). I remember a time were compiling a kernel was pretty much SOP, these days... well I can't remember the last time I have had to compile a kernel.
I guess I am a muggle. The idea of a "favorite" kernel never occurred to me. I've always taken whatever my distribution (Debian, Ubuntu) provided. I have never had the need or urge (or ability) to modify and recompile the kernel source code. Fortran is as deep as I go.
Using Linux since the 90's on an Amiga 2000 ... first tries with kernel < 1.0.
Now I am running 4.18,4.19 and 4.20 on Debian Stretch on Corei3, corei5, corei7 and many VM's (Xen or KVM).
In my opinion, kernel version 2.4.x is where Linux really came into it's own. I remember that release as adding numerous features needed by enterprise level computing.
My favorite linux kernel is the one that thrives with my Pentium 4 chip. Of course I have other machines so I guess is using a kernel for each one of them that won't break my machine. So far no one is hardly making stuff for 32-bit machines. So, in short, I have to stick with particular ones that will work on those machines. I have 64-bit machines too but they don't always work with the newest kernels.
Since there are over 50 Linux flavors/forks, no one knows what you are talking about without mentioning the flavor/fork you like and why you like it over another fork.
For Me it's Kubuntu 14.04 LTS. I only use LTS versions as they are more stable, without Beta versions of apps and core. 16.04 won't even install from the live DVD and 18.04 is super buggy, so on 14.04.
I love the "Super Tabs" that are in 14.04 because as a developer I usually have at least 50 window session open and the super tabs lest me organize to just 4-8 windows where I can see all the other details/sessions.
Example: This session tab/window is Firefox which has 11 subtabs open as I'm monitoring 6 Mail boxes, via Google and interacting, as I am with this reply, in another tab opened to read the email notification I got on this thread.
Cheers!
TBotNik
PS
I've been writing up the list of needed apps/features for a "perfect" developers Linux deployment. Will publish online and here when done.
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