On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 04:27:21PM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 03:48:36PM -0500, [email protected] wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> > 
> > I'm thinking of moving away from Kubuntu. Ever since I upgraded to
> > the 15.xx branch, I've only had problems and frustrations. Today,
> > after an update, I lost the sound system. I'm not sure if this is a
> > problem with the based distribution, or if it's because of KDE and
> > Plasma 5, but I'm kind of tired of spending so much time trying to
> > fix this instead of using the system. Kubuntu 15 has been a huge
> > disappointment to me.
> > 
> > I want to stick with a Debian based distribution. I'm considering
> > Debian or Mint. Mostly, I need to be able to install the latest
> > Nvidia drivers for Steam Linux support. That's about my only
> > requirements. Well, that and a stable system. I might moved over to
> > Cinnamon instead of KDE as well.
> > 
> > Has anyone moved away to a different distribution after years of
> > using Kubuntu, and what are you using now?
> 
> Never used Kububtu.
> 
> For the past few years I've used Debian.  I've recently  switched my 
> laptop to Devuan (with xcfe as window manager) to try it out, and find 
> it works quite nicely. 
> 
> It is technicaly still an alpha release, but it seems to be more 
> reliable than a lot of commercially released software.
> 
> It's probably not what you want if you are married to Gnome 3, KDE 4, 
> or systemd.
> 
> I like it because it avoids radical, take-it-all-or-leave-it-all 
> achitectural change.

By the way, Deevuan *is* a Debian derivative.
Most of the packages are even the Debian packages without any change.
Only a few have been modified so they work without systemd.

It's even possible to upgrade to Devuan jessie straight from Debian wheezy.

-- hendrik
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