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Old 01-14-2017, 10:24 AM   #16
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what's the meaning?
For a single-user desktop run by somebody with a little Linux experience Sid, to my mind, is a better experience -- newer NVIDIA graphics drivers, for example, and things are included in Sid a long time before they get into Stable (at least I think 0AD took ages to migrate, as an example).
 
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For a single-user desktop run by somebody with a little Linux experience Sid, to my mind, is a better experience -- newer NVIDIA graphics drivers, for example, and things are included in Sid a long time before they get into Stable (at least I think 0AD took ages to migrate, as an example).
nothing is working on SID. Don't you spend your time to fix around most of the box with SID?
 
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nothing is working on SID. Don't you spend your time to fix around most of the box with SID?
not really -- I'll admit both my Sid machines had issues that meant I couldn't really use it for a few weeks but what is available is worth it to me. Take the newbie-favourite Kali, for example, I'd be willing to bet that most of the stuff available in Kali is in Sid but may not have migrated to Stable for a long time.
Don't get me wrong, Sid can leave one banging one's head on the table but its modernity is also very nice.
 
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Sid has the most available, take from this what you will: https://wiki.debian.org/Statistics
 
Old 01-14-2017, 10:48 AM   #20
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nothing is working on SID. Don't you spend your time to fix around most of the box with SID?
Some recent update broke Sid on my laptop, and I'm having big issues with permissions (probably polkit). Otherwise I can't think of any major issues I have had with Sid in my years running it.
 
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I have not had a brake in over 1/2 a year, is kind of freaking me out... tho has not lost the edge!
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I have not had a brake in over 1/2 a year, is kind of freaking me out... tho has not lost the edge!
You're lucky -- I'm relegated to Gnome on Wayland on my laptop for the moment as nothg else appears to recognise the keyboard and touchpad.
 
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Could be the ThinkPad in my case? :shouldershrug:
 
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Could be the ThinkPad in my case? :shouldershrug:
This is a bargain-basement ASUS with a "Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-3217U CPU @ 1.80GHz". I know, at least, it an X11 thing not a Linux thing.
 
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I just switched back (to and fro) from where your stuck: https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ml#post5651570 sorry to here.
 
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You're lucky -- I'm relegated to Gnome on Wayland on my laptop for the moment as nothg else appears to recognise the keyboard and touchpad.
My live testing runs now a 4.9.2 <- it is awesome. That kernel is really good.

Maybe give a try to a last 4.9.x kernel ?
 
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My live testing runs now a 4.9.2 <- it is awesome. That kernel is really good.

Maybe give a try to a last 4.9.x kernel ?
I've tried. I may need just to reinstall something but being a laptop I can cope for the minute.
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uname -a
Linux halo14 4.9.0-rc8-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9~rc8-1~exp1 (2016-12-05) x86_64 GNU/Linux
 
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I've tried. I may need just to reinstall something but being a laptop I can cope for the minute.
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Linux halo14 4.9.0-rc8-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9~rc8-1~exp1 (2016-12-05) x86_64 GNU/Linux
With my superbe custom 4.9.2 kernel and less superbe Debian, herewith the console.
This is quite annoying to read anything.


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There is nothing to do, it is not easy to be fixed visibly. Stretch/Sid has such a terrible bug! It will never be fixed. This issue is there since at least 1.5 year.

I booted here with options root=/dev/sdb1 rw

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