Am 06.06.2014 22:24, schrieb Dicebot:
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.
I got tired of tinkering. It must work out of the box, otherwise I have
better things to do with my life.
--
Paulo
