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[Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d]

Am 06.06.2014 22:24, schrieb Dicebot:
> On Friday, 6 June 2014 at 19:44:53 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>>> Battery usage is still a common problem. Everything has been working
>>> perfectly for years now.
>>
>> Not really, case in point my Netbook Asus EEE PC 1215B, which was sold
>> in Germany via Amazon with GNU/Linux support pre-installed.
>>
>> After one year usage, the wireless card stopped working with IPv4
>> routers, because Ubuntu devs decided to replace the proprietary driver
>> in the LTS distribution, although the open source version was still
>> work in progress.
>
>> LTS distribution
>
> This is the problem. Don't use LTS releases for desktops and your Linux
> experience will be much more pleasant. It is natural but wrong approach
> simply because kernel and driver support is evolving so fast that LTS
> versions can never really catch up.
>
> Bleeding edge distros have best h/w support, though that may cost some
> time wasted of system tinkering once in a while.

I got tired of tinkering. It must work out of the box, otherwise I have 
better things to do with my life.

--
Paulo