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My lily-white ass it has. If anything, my experience with the Linux distro ecosystem in the last year is worse than I have ever had with Linux going back some 2
by jarcane 11y ago
My lily-white ass it has. If anything, my experience with the Linux distro ecosystem in the last year is worse than I have ever had with Linux going back some 20 years. I would frankly trade any of the dozens of broken "robust desktop distros" for just Red Hat 7 or Mandrake or early 2000's Debian.
I have gone through any of nearly a dozen different distros in the last year, Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, more I'm probably forgetting, and every single one of them failed within weeks. Most wouldn't even boot on my hardware, others had weird limitations, while still others just completely ate themselves during routine updates or version changes.
At this point I'd sooner use FreeBSD, or swallow my annoyance with PC-BSD's security model and give that another go.
- JupiterMoon 11y agoIs your hardware supported?
- branchless 11y agoI don't get this. I use debian and I use a lightweight window manager. I have a ~/.xsession that starts up things I need (chrome/skype/emacs). This works.
- fernandotakai 11y agosame. i use arch with awesomewm and everything works quite fine. i only had one kernel panic and that was due to the freaking wifi drivers (macbooks have broadcom wifi and their linux support is just horrible). other than that, everything is basically perfect.
- branchless 11y agoI had one crash when I left a terminal open and my four-year-old came in and began playing with the mouse, copying and pasting the same stuff over and over rapidly. I've not been able to reproduce it yet. He's still in there, it's been 2 months now for four hours each day. My wife says it's not good for him but the needs of OSS must come first!