Hi, I switched to Debian 7.0 Wheezy Stable (KDE) AMD64 as my main OS for work & home for the past 2 months, because I love KDE but was annoyed with how often Linux Mint KDE would suddenly crash and need me to logout & log back in to KDE.
I chose Debian Stable as the most stable KDE option, and yet it still seems unstable for me. Perhaps its the combination of some software I'm often using (Skype, Oracle Java, Adobe Flash, VirtualBox) or my "Ghost-Deco" KDE Window Decoration or my laptop's NVIDIA/Intel Optimus GPU. But I've used the official Debian stable package for everything I'm using except Skype, Oracle JDK, Flash and Truecrypt. I'm even using the Debian Stable packages for NVIDIA GPU and CUDA toolkit and OpenGL. I also had initial problems with audio until I removed every possible piece of PulseAudio I could find while still allowing Skype, so I'm not sure exactly what is causing my instability but it feels like multiple bugs, not just one. I experience crashes around once per day, either as a software like Iceweasel or Kate or Dolphin crashing or as KDE/Plasma crashing & requiring me to hit Alt+PrtSc+K to close X & log back in to KDE. I've also found repeatable bugs that crash apps such as Kate and Inkscape but when I start to file bug reports I realize I shouldn't because Debian Stable is using old versions of the software and these bugs were fixed in later versions, so I assume nothing else can be done. So I get the impression I would have more stability if I used Debian Testing in the hope that newer software & drivers have fixed the bugs I'm often experiencing, but I've only used Debian for 2 months so I'm not sure if I should be back-porting newer versions to my system or what. Any recommendations on how to get more stability? Because I really want to stick with Debian KDE for long-term. Cheers, Shervin Emami.
