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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.