I've had problems with usb devices and hal. KDE did something a couple of months ago and non root mounting broke. Upgrading did not fix it, though I did not try dist-upgrade and lots of KDE stuff was held back. I will not recommend Etch to newbies until I know how to fix this.
As a desktop, there are lots of performance, appearance and feature improvements. Starting new X sessions is now click and drool easy with both the KDE and Gnome user menus offering "switch user" options and instructions on how to get to the new session. New local sessions don't come at a performance hit, even on my 233 MHz Thinkpad, so each user can keep their sessions up all the time get back to them through the usual keystrokes. All the desktops look beautiful with crisp graphics and excellent fonts. Transparency is there and usable, if you want. Gnome's performance boosting has paid off and I use more gnome applications more now. The environment itself is almost as snappy as E16. On Wednesday 18 April 2007 12:57 pm, Marcus Reed wrote: > I am > interested in anything else interesting about Etch that anyone else has > found out.
