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X is really old and should be phased out. That's why Fedora has made Wayland the default display manager in latest Fedora 25. I have never had the problem you'
by terrywang 10y ago
X is really old and should be phased out. That's why Fedora has made Wayland the default display manager in latest Fedora 25.
I have never had the problem you've described, most issue I've encountered (my VGA/GPU were all Intel/NVIDIA) can be fixed (using pseudo console, SSH, chroot etc...) without reinstall (which doesn't really fix the root cause). The issues you've mentioned, try to look for workarounds from distro wiki or stackoverflow (sister sites), or even Gentoo/Arch Docs, try to get mentor who's a Linux veteran will save you time and effort.
I've been running rolling release for many years and it has never broken once after the sysV init -> systemd migration (I did a reinstall). Even Ubuntu / Kubuntu LTS versions have been stable, I wonder if it the VGA/GPU driver causing all the troubles.
HTH
- mnm1 10y agoI'm hoping Wayland does indeed solve the problems X has. Unfortunately, it's not just one problem but a series of them spread over multiple machines from various vendors. This latest one I think is probably not the graphics driver as it did work fine for a couple of weeks but the trackpad driver. I think I might give Fedora 25 a shot and see if there's a difference. Without a doubt, however, Linux based OS's have come a very long way even in just the last 5 years, let alone the last 20. Mint KDE for example, works almost out of the box for me on my 2013 MbPro w/ external 4k monitor (except internal trackpad / Magic Trackpad 2). I suspect I'll be able to remove that "almost" in the next year or two if not sooner and once messing with X config is no longer required, hopefully X (or Wayland) will be stable.
- digi_owl 10y ago> X is really old and should be phased out. Yeah, let the CADT flow...