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Originally Posted by bigtomrodney I gave up on hobbyist distros that require you to put as much work in as a develope might. My sole measure now is whether or not it can do what I need with only reasonable interaction from me. If I (as a geek) find it to too much hassle then how are non-techies going to feel about it?
That's the main reason why over the years although I've been a distro-slut I've always run back to the shelter of Mandrake, SUSE and Ubuntu. |
You put that very well. When I used to
play with my PC, I would have loved it. Now
that I
work with my PC I want easy.
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Originally Posted by IsaacKuo I know both the cause and the fix for the mouse pointer disappearing. It's a problem with nVidia and the open source nv driver. Basically, you need to insert the following line in /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
Option "HWCursor" "off"
Put that in under Driver "nv", in the device section. |
That doesn't sound like a distro specific problem, but Debian is the only one I have seen
it in, possibly because it is the only distro where I haven't had the Nvidia drivers going.
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Originally Posted by IsaacKuo Ironically, I avoid Ubuntu because I'm too lazy to go through the effort to keep it working. With Debian Stable, it just plain works and I don't have to deal with some Ubuntu update breaking things or changing the behavior on software I'm already familiar with.
The tradeoff is that I don't have the latest versions of software. But I don't WANT the latest versions of software. I'll take software that's tried and true and WORKS, rather than get the latest/greatest/buggiest. |
I know exactly where you are coming from. But having used OOO 2.4, going back to 2.0
feels primitive. And I already love Firefox 3 and don't want to lose it.
The hobbyist distros have their place as do the easy ones. And how can I not respect
what Debian has done. Without it there would be no Ubuntu or Mint distros for me to use.
Although I can't say for certain, if I hadn't already used more modern and significantly
improved versions of some software I think I would have been very happy with Debian
stable.