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.
