On Thursday, December 20, 2012 02:29:12 AM, Ralf Mardorf, an eminent manifestation of divinity, wrote: > However, I used Debian stable amd64 and testing amd64 and AVLinux (a > 32bit Debian stable), both for my needs are less god than the broken > Ubuntu. > > I'm switching between Debian and Ubuntu and Arch, from time to time I > take a look at a RPM based distro. If something fit to my needs I only > maintain one or two installs of much more that are on my machine.
at this point i don't have the time, the patience, or the space to run more than one distro, which is another reason i headed towards debian. > If you don't have special needs, Debian stable could be the best choice > for you, OTOH it's outdated and if an outdated Ubuntu does fit to your > needs, there might be no big difference between an old Ubuntu and Debian > stable. i hadn't really considered downgrading as an option until i read in the KDE- PIM mailing list, a couple of weeks ago, that a user had gone back to an older version because the new one was too buggy to suit him. > What kind of issues do you get? a number of bugs with KDE-PIM: it doesn't remember my SMTP password when i reboot, it randomly crashes when i delete one message at a time too quickly, it loses messages when i move their folders from the place they were created to another location, it randomly crashes shortly after moving folders, it wouldn't migrate my old mail, and left the database in an unreadable condition... also a number of bugs with amarok: it randomly hangs and has to be rebooted, when i quit the application it generates a bug report EVERY TIME (the solution is to upgrade, but nobody wants to tell me how to do it), it doesn't display correctly until i "nudge" it... also, some other, random items, like making adjustments to the computer's appearance somehow put the wrong path into my email client and it couldn't find mail directories, and randomly crashed... basically, it's all stuff that make me wish i hadn't upgraded to begin with. 8/ > Regarding to audio I could imagine that an on-board device does cause > issues, especially for a fat desktop environment, that perhaps was less > heavyweight in the past. In this case switching the DE for what distro > ever might solve issues. the problem is not the audio so much. in fact, one of the main reasons i upgraded from lucid was that the audio was not working the way it was supposed to: i could play music from my music player, but not from things like youtube (i got the video, but not the audio). when i upgraded from lucid to precise, youtube worked, but amarok developed these weird quirks... -- namaste salamandir salaman...@spamcop.net - spam at your own risk http://przxqgl.hybridelephant.com/ Professional New Age Renaissance Man -- A little detective work revealed that, as is usually the case when you encounter something shoddy in the vicinity of a computer, Microsoft incompetence and gratuitous incompatibility were to blame. -- John Walker
