On August 22, 2013 10:28:27 PM Shawn wrote: > I know we've all heard the question many times, but it has been a while > since I have changed distros and am looking for opinions on what > distro's are working well for people. > > I'm about to rebuild my laptop with a new (larger) SSD. The laptop is > currently running Ubuntu with the KDE desktop, and has some problems > with my hardware. (occasional graphics glitches, sound issues, external > video issues, etc.) The laptop has become a primary workstation for me, > rather than an occasional use box like it was in the past. So these > issues are becoming frustrating. I think it is time to try another > distro. Something that works well for PHP based web development, and > still supports daily desktop use well. > > Other than Debian, what are other decent options at the moment? I might > try out Fedora/Red Hat, but Arch looks interesting, as do some others. > > I can easily do the trial and error thing, but I'm wondering what others > are using these days (other than Ubuntu), and why. > > Thanks for any input. > > Shawn
I can't speak to it's useability for web development, but you might check out Mint. While I, like you, have been using Kubuntu on my main desktop and Ubuntu/Kubuntu on my laptop (with the same issues as you have), I've been trying Mint on my backup machine, and have discovered that while it is Ubuntu- based, the sound issues are much reduced, and the external video issue I was seeing is absent. As to the video issue: I had downloaded a video from Google Play, which crashed on starting on my Ubuntu boxes with an error message telling me to reset the protected content files setting in Adobe Flash Player. Following Adobe's instructions didn't work, which Adobe indicates is due to a problem Flash player has with the HAL implementation in Ubuntu. Although Mint is ubuntu-based, they seem to have fixed that problem in their HAL implementation - the protected content video from Google Play DOES play in Mint. Whether this is the same issue you've been getting, I don't know, but it may be an indication why external videos from other sources may have issues with Ubuntu. Al Preston _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
