Debian Jessie - 3 weeks in
Posted 09-07-2015 at 12:33 PM by WestCoastSunset
Well, I've been using Jessie for about 3 weeks now and after a rocky start, everything is going smoother. Samba was not a big all night process this time since I backed up my /etc folder before doing a fresh install (along with my home folder of course).
Cinlerra & Firefox installed without a hitch since as of right now they are just downloadable binaries. Audacity, and Avidemux would not install without first upgrading some libraries. I believe this might have been due to an incompatibility between my nvidia driver and 1 particular library. The audacity install complained about 1 file I believe. But after the first upgrade I was able to install Audacity and Avidemux. Power management is better than it was in Debian 7.7. The laptop will now wake up properly after sleeping, something that I was not able to do at all with previous versions and previous laptops. The Dragon video player seems to play videos better than VLC. Resolution seems sharper. Libreoffice is still at 4.3. I will probably upgrade to 5 to see if is handles docx and xslx files better than 4.3 did.
So far so good.
Cinlerra & Firefox installed without a hitch since as of right now they are just downloadable binaries. Audacity, and Avidemux would not install without first upgrading some libraries. I believe this might have been due to an incompatibility between my nvidia driver and 1 particular library. The audacity install complained about 1 file I believe. But after the first upgrade I was able to install Audacity and Avidemux. Power management is better than it was in Debian 7.7. The laptop will now wake up properly after sleeping, something that I was not able to do at all with previous versions and previous laptops. The Dragon video player seems to play videos better than VLC. Resolution seems sharper. Libreoffice is still at 4.3. I will probably upgrade to 5 to see if is handles docx and xslx files better than 4.3 did.
So far so good.
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Sounds about the right time frame for a personal dial in. Especially when 1st starting out with unfamiliar things.
Nice job sticking to this. I am on libreoffice version 5. But I dist-upgrade using testing repos. Not Jessie repos.
Jessie is more conservative/stable than testing.
So it uses what it uses to give a stable less breakage experience. I do not care about age of software. Only if it fits my needs or not is all that matters to me.
http://i.imgur.com/Rav8rb3.jpgPosted 09-07-2015 at 07:13 PM by rokytnji 
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I've given up on libreoffice for now, since everything I have read leads me to believe it will not support the newer filetypes easily. I installed office 2007 (just word and excel), which will work.
Posted 09-07-2015 at 11:42 PM by WestCoastSunset
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Which file types?
Posted 09-08-2015 at 06:33 PM by Randicus Draco Albus
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The x filetypes such as docx or xslx, Word and excel respectively. There is one file I submit for work alot which uses the newer filetypes. Whenever I open it in libreoffice, I get 'this file contains links to other files'. Libreoffice 43 will not render it properly and incorrect data is displayed.
Posted 09-09-2015 at 03:39 PM by WestCoastSunset
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On those rare occasions when I open Windows files with LibreOffice, they are displayed perfectly, but if I save the file in .doc format, it often messes up the founts of a few words, especially Chinese. I do not care since I almost never need to do it. Of course, perfect compatibility with Windows should not be expected. Microsoft go out of their way to make their system incompatible with other OSes.
Posted 09-09-2015 at 06:31 PM by Randicus Draco Albus
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Yeah, well I can't just expect everyone else to move to libreoffice. I have to work with what they use. Office 2007 works fine on Jessie
Posted 09-10-2015 at 12:16 AM by WestCoastSunset
