On Wednesday, March 19, 2014 10:32:10 Ken Heard wrote: > It never ceases to amaze me that there are people can get various > iterations of Debian "working out of the box". Ever since Sarge I > have had no end of trouble either with new installations or upgrades, > to the point that I dread every new iteration. I would have switched > long ago to another operating system except for the fact that every > other one I looked at was worse. > > My latest experience was a new installation of Wheezy in a new box. > It took me the entire month of January to get the OS and essential > applications to the point where the machine became usable. Yes it > works, but so does a Ford model T. For example I wanted to use LVM > but the attempt broke the installer. I still have not got sound working. > > So what is the secret? > > Ken Heard
I don't know Ken. I came over to Debian from Ubuntu. The last Ubuntu release that I consider good was 8.04. I went over to Squeeze before Wheexy became stable. The only hassle I had was with the Broadcomm wireless drivers. When I updated to wheezy, again the only hassle was with the wireless drivers. That took about an hour. I use the KDE desktop. Amarok is crap in Wheezy, so I use Clementine. I use the system for at least twelve hours a day, and except for having to restart the display manager every few days to keep Clementine from getting pissy there have been no problems. For the record, I have a Dell Inspiron 1545 laptop with 4G of memory, Debian GNU/Linux 7.4 (wheezy). Mike -- Mike McGinn KD2CNU Ex Uno Plurima No electrons were harmed in sending this message, some were inconvenienced. ** Registered Linux User 377849 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201403191114.45699.mikemcg...@mcginnweb.net