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The PT410X thread: Linux/BSD and Open Source Software for users and beginners!
Stoon:
The problems I was having with Linux Mint 17.2 only my desktop apparently were caused by my NVIDIA video card. They seemed to have fixed it with 17.3. Works great.
hedgie:
Odd. I've never had a real problem with the Nvidia cards on Mint. And I'm actually in the midst of the computer chugging away dding a backup to switch back. Partially because IME, KDE isn't just an afterthought, and the Build Service.
ankhtahr:
I had to give up on an old notebook yesterday. The partner of my mother wanted to have Lubuntu on his old Notebook. So far so good, but X only ran with the VESA driver. I looked into lspci to discover that the notebook had a GPU from SiS, a SiS 671Gx to be precise. There is no xserver-video-sis package in the Ubuntu repos, so I found an article describing the driver availability for this hardware. Long abandoned by the manufacturer, not common enough for people to write an open source driver for it, the only way to get it running was supposedly to install the driver RPM from Mageia. After fiddling with alien a while I got it installed. As the driver was named differently from the name X expects I had to create an xorg.conf with a full Device, Monitor, Display and Screen config. Rebooted, and it froze long before the X server was even supposed to start. In the failsafe mode it booted, but the screen was really glitchy and unusable. I looked into the logs and found out, that the ABI version of the xorg server was too recent. It seems you can only use this driver on Ubuntu up to version 12.04.
hedgie:
I just made the switch to OpenSUSE Leap, in hope that drivers for my Wacom tablet will land before they do on Mint. Well, that last bit didn't work out so well, save that they'd actually compile, but hope springs eternal. It *is* however my first experience with Plasma 5. Now I had been a KDE 3 holdout until a couple of years ago, and now that I had finally stopped complaining about 4, now 5 has a few things that are already driving me spare. The top of the window menubar failing to work as of now is one of the big ones. It's not as critical on my desktop where I have two large screens, but the Mac-like menu is pretty much needed on a laptop. Oh well, I can wait. Most distros are still using older versions of KDE.
The good: Very clean, very stable, fast even with all the eye-candy.
The bad: Much of the desktop is less configurable, and more than a few things had to be done to make it stop looking completely flat.
Oh well, back to trying to get that tablet to work.
Edit: Wacom tablet is now working quite well. Now I just need to configure the thing. Sadly, with all the time I have spent trying to find an "easy" way to do it, I could have just fixed the config file.
Rhodderz:
I, to this day, still despise SiS with a passion. (also love the graph)
I use linux mint as my main distro on a Lenovo x220 which works really nicely (and play on windows works flawlessly with SWTOR).
Got 2 Jump vms at work with CentOs 7 (shell only) and Ubuntu 15 which has OpenBox installed (got really into OB)
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