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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.