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Quotes of the week

Posted Sep 4, 2010 1:33 UTC (Sat) by drag (guest, #31333)
In reply to: Quotes of the week by Baylink
Parent article: Quotes of the week

I solved the problem with KDE a long time ago, I just stopped trying to use it. Seems to have solved problems plaguing a great many distros, too.

As far as the Linux kernel goes... usually there is actual benefit to upgrading. Better wireless, better video, better power management, better mostly everything.... If you have work that will not benefit from upgrading then I can understand why you would not want to, of course.

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Posted Sep 9, 2010 12:49 UTC (Thu) by nlucas (subscriber, #33793) [Link] (1 responses)

I have reached the same solution for KDE.
Waiting for Gnome Shell to go back ;-)

As for kernels, many things are better with newer versions.
If you keep the same hardware there should be no reason to stay with the older one, but that's not what really happens.
You upgrade the kernel and the new kernel driver for your wireless card doesn't work anymore (or only works with a specific WPA setup). Video works OK, but your notebook doesn't last as long when viewing it (they say the image quality is better, though), and even basic things like pressing a button to enable/disable some piece of hardware is broken.

The truth is there are a lot of hacks involved in a modern distribution, and those hacks don't like it when the kernel is changed under them...

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Posted Sep 16, 2010 20:05 UTC (Thu) by jospoortvliet (guest, #33164) [Link]

The result is simply that you move as wel as anyone else - except that you're a while behind the rest. Otherwise - little difference. Oh, of course you miss out on nice features and productivity improvements you could've had earlier.

On the other hand, you can pick what to move to - eg in case of the KDE 4 series, you could've waited until 4.4, when it was user-ready. Then again, maybe SUSE should've indeed done that for you...