I recently upgraded my XPS17 LMDE to UP4. The install was flawless (except for the need to understand and answer some config file choices) and I was amazed when the machine finally boot back up perfectly. Kudo's to the test team for this. Since the upgrade, I have experienced three issues that I need (or have) resolved. They are as follows:
1) Transmission 2.50-1 is broken (on two machines, not just one). The port forwarding no longer works. I have spent 2 days on it and posted to the Transmission web site with no response. I have always had the same port open and it worked fine. Now it reports as closed and even enabling UPNP Port Forwarding will not allow me to port forward. I finally gave up on this (at least for now) and installed Deluge (on the same port). It works perfectly. There is definitely a bug in 2.50-1.
2) My hardware support for my "intel corporation centrino wireless-N 1030 (REV 34)" no longer works properly. In particular, the card will not do WPA2 encryption (it works fine with WEP). This used to work proplerly. After a lot of Googling, I am finding a lot of others having this issue with kernel 3.2. I will try manually updating to the latest driver modules and see if that solves the problem.
3) This one is not so easy... and I don't want to appear to be a troll... but I had no idea of exactly how awful Gnome 3 really is. I mean, they have taken away virtually all ability to configure anything. I immediately loaded Cinnamon, but that kind of like giving pain pills to a lobotomy patient. This thing is just hopeless. It made me not even want to use my machine. So... I loaded KDE. I simply did:
sudo aptitude install kdm kde-plasma-desktop plasma-widget-networkmanagement
I was not looking forward to this, as my last outing with KDE4 was less than pleasant. Much to my surprise, KDE is working perfectly. It is MUCH faster than Gnome 3 and extremely smooth and configurable. I am quite happy with this move. With that said, I have a few questions:
1) Should I stick with this configuation, or should I install a fresh Wheezy with KDE4? I can't think of a reason that my current configuration should be a problem, but I'm asking if anyone knows of one. If you do recommend re-installing, can I use the LMDE repos to get codecs, Firefox, etc?
2) Should I stick with the LMDE Latest repository, or go back to Debian Testing? I believe that the goal of Latest is to get a good snapshot of a working Gnome... and I have dumped Gnome.
3) Is there any way to get some (or all) of the Gnome stuff gone that I don't need for supporting the Gnome apps that I will continue to use? Or am I just better off letting sleeping dogs lie (or installing a fresh Wheezy a la #1)?
I can tell you that I am unbelievably relieved that I can now use my machine again without cringing. I seriously can't believe that my beloved Gnome has been butchered so badly. Also, before someone recommends XFCE... I'm really not interested. It feels like a very dated environment to me... that's just my take.
Thanks for any constructive criticism.
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Re: UP4 Issues
I can't help you with much but what you definitely don't need from Gnome is gnome-panel, gnome-session and gnome-shell.
Have you tried MATE desktop?
Have you tried MATE desktop?
Re: UP4 Issues
Well, I have to agree with you. I broke down and installed Update Pack 4, and I can't even use Gnome 3. No panels, no way to access a menu or anything else, COMPLETELY useless. I installed Cinnamon. It works, but I HATE it. YUCK! I installed MATE. It's Gnome 2, but everything I liked about Gnome 2 no longer works.
As far as I'm concerned. Gnome is DEAD to me.
I've now installed LXDE and XFCE (both of which I've experimented with before.) I have XFCE configured to where I like it, and will now play around with LXDE. After reading your post, maybe I'll give KDE another shot, too.
I see no reason to even utter the word "Gnome", ever again.
As far as I'm concerned. Gnome is DEAD to me.
I've now installed LXDE and XFCE (both of which I've experimented with before.) I have XFCE configured to where I like it, and will now play around with LXDE. After reading your post, maybe I'll give KDE another shot, too.
I see no reason to even utter the word "Gnome", ever again.
Re: UP4 Issues
My first impression of cinnamon wasn't that great but after fiddling around with it I love it now, much better than Unity, Gnome 3 or KDE..thomasmc wrote:Well, I have to agree with you. I broke down and installed Update Pack 4, and I can't even use Gnome 3. No panels, no way to access a menu or anything else, COMPLETELY useless. I installed Cinnamon. It works, but I HATE it. YUCK!
Re: UP4 Issues
Elegansetoomuchcoffee wrote:My first impression of cinnamon wasn't that great but after fiddling around with it I love it now, much better than Unity, Gnome 3 or KDE..thomasmc wrote:Well, I have to agree with you. I broke down and installed Update Pack 4, and I can't even use Gnome 3. No panels, no way to access a menu or anything else, COMPLETELY useless. I installed Cinnamon. It works, but I HATE it. YUCK!