On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Brian van den Broek <[email protected]> wrote: [...] > For those keeping score, I'm giving up on Fedora because, while I did > expect to have some bumpiness while I earning the fedora way, there's > been too much struggle. Some highlights (lowlights?): > [...] > - lxpanel pins the cpu to 100% once you've been running for a few > hours and click on it too often in too short a time. A bug was first > filled against F10 and labelled "won't fix" because F10 reached > end-of-life. > > - mounting authorization dialogs sometimes show up in the wrong > account's desktop (while logged in as one user with another account > logged in in the background, the dialog pops up on the background > user's desktop), and sometimes not at all. As a result, mounting > devices sometimes works and sometimes does not. Switching to automount > diminshed but did not eliminate mounting sadness. > > - in 5 days, I've three time come back to my machine after a few hours > and found a frozen screensaver and an unresponsive box that could be > recovered only by hitting the reset button on the case. > > - the default music player for Fedora17 LXDE crashes with a > segmentation fault the first time you click on the UI after launch. > > - rythmbox crashes frequently when in use. > > - some applications have boxes with circles in them (I don't know the > technical term) in the UI in place of text characters. Obviously some > sort of unicode issue, but it really ought not be happening on a fresh > install. > > Some or even all of that is surely the LXDE integration; I'd expect > the mainline Gnome3 F17 to not have all of these issues. But, I don't > want G3. I'm also sure that with time I could fix some, most, or all > of these. However, I don't want to devote that much effort to > plumbing; my threshold has been reached.
I'm worried you might run into similar problems on just about any distro. Everyone uses pretty much the same software -- it's just a matter of whether it's all exercising the same code paths. Sometimes it's the case, sometimes not. Sometimes the bugs are fixed in a distro and patches don't make it to the upstream projects. If you run into issues, please file bug reports. It's always a good idea because it's not just helping you, it's helping all users. Most developers are understanding and patient to help users provide the right information for bug reports; but it makes things go a lot faster when all the necessary information is there from the start. I won't go into details, but screenshots for UI issues are always good, just like anything relevant that shows up in ~/.xsession-errors or /var/log/syslog. Regards, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <[email protected]> Freenode: cyphermox, Jabber: [email protected] 4096R/EE018C93 1967 8F7D 03A1 8F38 732E FF82 C126 33E1 EE01 8C93 _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
