Let me explain again. You take the most minimalist possible Linux. As little gui tools as possible. You take the distro that has the least possible tweaking of any applications. Then you try to find out: do virtual desktops work here? Are all fonts visible here? Does the editor crash here?
If it works fine, you have learned something important. You know that it is something at a higher level than this that is causing the problem. So you start adding stuff, one thing at a time. Eventually you can tie it down. Or it may be that in Slackware, it just works. Then you know it is in other distro tweaks and customizations. This is not about what we use for goodness' sake! I don't use Slackware any more (though I would for servers). This is about systematically tying down what it is that is causing the problems, going through and eliminating possible causes one after the other. I don't mind the command line and editing text files at all, but its not something that I want to do in my regular working system. But there is no other way of getting as close to bare metal as you can, and there is no other way of eliminating most of the possible sources of the problems than getting down to bare metal. -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Personal-suggestion-for-fixing-the-Linux-situation-tp2291027p2291864.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution