Hi Russell, I used Etch for a brief period of time, less than 2 months, and I disliked it very much. I changed to SuSE for a long time, and I did a lot of hard work on programming (kdevelop) and editoring (kile).
After KDE4, that I disliked at the time, I tried UBUNTU for a brief period of time, and moved to GNOME. But I was surprised by the UNITY when I was trying to like GNOME. I never liked GNOME, and I strongly dislike UNITY, and now UBUNTU. So I decided to try Debian, the great, once again. I moved to Squeeze+KDE4 and I loved it (One of the things that made me nervous about KDE4 no longer exists: some restriction to add icons to your desktop). Everything works fine, and it is really very stable. One of the things I like is how fast a machine boot. Not something you notice on servers, they are always on. But on desktop, that is a great advantage. More yet in notebooks. I had Squeeze installed in my Acer Aspire One. Good system. When I changed notebooks, and got one that the network didn't work with Squeeze, this list helped me to move to Wheezy. And I moved not only my notebook, but 2 more desktops. I'm using Wheezy since august, and I can tell you it really surprised me with all things working out of the box! Also, I have no problems with stability already (still considered unstable), just a little problem (related here) about disconnecting an external monitor and getting strange behaviour. Another thing I noticed, is that Wheezy is a lot slower to boot than Squeeze. I'll some day measure the time just to check (I mean, the time you press the "enter" key after login/password to the time you hear the first note of the login theme). Beside that, I recommend you give it a shot. My best, Beco. -- Dr Beco A.I. researcher --> . <-- "Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know..." (Carl Sagan, 1934-1996) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CALuYw2zyuXVmrmx_3RZeVfoD=39nPTO=gtltzstsp8+6bk0...@mail.gmail.com
