After I accidentally "nuked" my Trisquel 8 Alpha install, I moved back to
Trisquel 7 because I heard from ADFENO and others that you can use the Guix
package manager with it.
Some things I would like to say and I may add more later as I get up and
running more...
- The Linux-Libre Kernel messes up my installation, possibly due to the fact
I am using a laptop connected to a dock that has monitors plugged into it.
Trisquel 8 could handle this well using Compiz Configuration Manager. I had
to reinstall the default Trisquel 7 kernel. Booting up with the Linux-Libre
kernel with my dual monitors plugged into my dock causes me to boot into the
terminal with an error that it cannot display the Desktop Environment.
- I can't get Both of my monitors to non-mirrored with my dock-laptop
situation without plugging one monitor into the dock and the other into the
laptop directly, which makes my laptop annoying to be portable because I need
to unplug the monitor attached to my laptop
- I was able to move my home directory (and config files in it) from Trisquel
8 to Trisquel 7 with no problems
- Trisquel 7 uses Init - which is fine, but I often forget that I don't have
system D installed.
- Caja from Trisquel 8 is more useful to me than the default Trisquel 7 file
manager.
- Automatically mounting USB drives seems to work more consistently for me in
Trisquel 8 than 7. Particularly the "Disks" app doesn't seem to be doing what
its supposed to do in Trisquel 7 ... I am not 100% sure of this though.
I would say most of these are very minor. Trisquel 7 + Guix to me is
basically almost like using Trisquel 8 alpha. Guix gives me more current
packages and to me that is basically why I would upgrade to a later version
of an OS.
What are the other benefits of upgrading to Trisquel 8?
