Debian desktops (Re: SUSE Linux Days Road Tour)

[Michael Butash]

Ahh, debian lurkers!

Just out of curiosity, not to hijack the thread, but don't find a lot of 
pure debian users... what train of debian are you and/or most people 
using for desktop, if not just servers?  Curious what others are using 
if not the usual ubuntu flavors of deb, or raw debian even.

Ubuntu's become mostly a basketcase where I spend as much time removing, 
disabling, fixing, or hunting bugs in literally everything I do that I 
felt it's time to move on.  I can't remember the last time I upgraded 
clean without spending a week with fallout.  Wait, yes I can - about the 
time Unity replaced things, and they did away with debian installer.  
Whodathunkit.

Figure go to the source, but debian has been an adventure in itself.  I 
used cinnamon debian mint on my laptop with a haswell chip, and the 
graphics are buggy with anything that attempts to use GL.  Go figure, 
Intel is always a winner here.

I used Mate-based debian mint on my desktop, which is apparently an 
adventure with new hardware on a z97 chip, 2nd gen haswell, and my 
trusty ATI card which sadly I still cannot replace with an nvidia to 
drive my 6 displays. Couldn't upgrade to 3.15 with z97 patches (damn 
ati), settled on a 3.11, and tossed in a usb sound card for now until 
ati wakes up and updates the driver for 3.15 with alsa fixes.

I thought to go pure debian, but was hoping mint debian would prove a 
bit better.  Admittedly, once working it's been fairly good, but lots of 
weird bugs/caveats too - just wondering what the consensus is around it.

-mb


On 07/25/2014 03:25 PM, Kaoru Wilbur wrote:
> Yeah, I think I have a SuSe disk from like 2001. I did make some money 
> on that Novell stock when they bought SuSe. The road trip thing sounds 
> interesting to me. I want to see what they have to say... I'm not 
> expecting anything amazing, and I am Debian dedicated but am open to 
> seeing what else is going on.