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[Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d]

Am 07.06.2014 06:12, schrieb ed:
> On Friday, 6 June 2014 at 22:04:35 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> 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
>
> I gave up on Ubuntu due to bugs, crashes and general instability that
> started to appear around 9.10. I switched to Fedora 16 after Ubuntu
> 12.04 still had not resolved all the stability issues, X crashes every
> package upgrade etc. Fedora has never given me any real problems...
>
> I switched to Arch about 12 months ago because I wanted the latest
> clang, gcc et. al. and didn't want to wait 3-4 months for the next
> Fedora release. I've never looked back.
>
> Arch is by far the most stable and up to date Linux I've ever used.


The time I used to jump around distributions is long gone. I realized
how much time I was taking away from my social life not doing anything 
else than re-installations.

This is a travel netbook, which after these issues now works as it 
should, except for not doing hibernation properly, which I can live without.

I am not opening the Padora box trying out other distributions and a 
sequence of lost evenings and weekends.

--
Paulo