went back to main edition - and already miss lmde
Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2011 7:07 pm
Seriously - I had to get it out. This really shows how far lmde has come.
I recently got a new rig (four instead of one cpu cores 8 instead of 1 gig ram etc) so I thought - what the hey - I can shoulder some ubuntu bloat and with gnome 3 hitting the repos lmde might have a rough patch ahead of itself - or one with few updates possibly.
So I went back to the main edition after like a year of tracking testing on lmde (with two updateless weeks on incoming at the end) - and you know what?
I have issues that I never had on lmde.
I think I have to configure another sound drive because changing volume is somewhat choppy and sometimes one or both gnome panels just don't show up and i have to "killall gnome-panel" after logging in before I'm able to use the whole desktop the way I like it.
The only issue I remember having on lmde (besides a somewhat idiosyncratic pulse-audio setup I just HAD to have ) was that one lib (forgot the name) for font rendering that was imported from ubuntu preventing the install of some dev libraries I wanted - pinned that to the debian version and all was good. (don't care much about oh-so-pretty fonts)
Now I'm on main edition. okay I can use ubuntu ppas but I realized i really don't need any. Oh and I have pretty fonts and panel issues
What I wanted to say: Keep up the good work on lmde - I expect I'll be back soon. For me it is still THE linux desktop distro.
I recently got a new rig (four instead of one cpu cores 8 instead of 1 gig ram etc) so I thought - what the hey - I can shoulder some ubuntu bloat and with gnome 3 hitting the repos lmde might have a rough patch ahead of itself - or one with few updates possibly.
So I went back to the main edition after like a year of tracking testing on lmde (with two updateless weeks on incoming at the end) - and you know what?
I have issues that I never had on lmde.
I think I have to configure another sound drive because changing volume is somewhat choppy and sometimes one or both gnome panels just don't show up and i have to "killall gnome-panel" after logging in before I'm able to use the whole desktop the way I like it.
The only issue I remember having on lmde (besides a somewhat idiosyncratic pulse-audio setup I just HAD to have ) was that one lib (forgot the name) for font rendering that was imported from ubuntu preventing the install of some dev libraries I wanted - pinned that to the debian version and all was good. (don't care much about oh-so-pretty fonts)
Now I'm on main edition. okay I can use ubuntu ppas but I realized i really don't need any. Oh and I have pretty fonts and panel issues
What I wanted to say: Keep up the good work on lmde - I expect I'll be back soon. For me it is still THE linux desktop distro.