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 _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
