Marvellous May Screenshot Thread

[loukingjr]

I happen to like Manjaro but it's broken on me more than any other flavor of Linux.

[loukingjr]

Funny squarish Manjaro...

[goldshirt9]

very mmmmmmmmmmm cubish

[loukingjr]

very mmmmmmmmmmm cubish

yep

[Sector11]

circles ... need circles ... more ... circles!



ahhhhhhhhh relax.

[loukingjr]

what the world needs is more square monitors...

[VinDSL]

Got sick of Ubuntu randomly breaking on me, so I installed Manjaro.

You got sick of your OS randomly breaking on you,

...so you moved to a bleeding edge rolling release distribution.

I happen to like Manjaro but it's broken on me more than any other flavor of Linux.

Google Cloud just switched to Debian 6 & 7 (also CentOS, for those that want it).

If you want a stable release... this headline says it all:

Good news: Debian 7 is rock solid. Bad news: It's called Wheezy

If you want to be 20 miles from the bleeding edge, come on in

SOURCE: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/05..._seven_review/

Okay, back_on_topic...

[screaminj3sus]

Ironically debian 7 was one of the more unstable distros I've tried recently, they still haven't fixed it randomly freezing on sandybridge/ivybridge when using any form of compositing (I tried gnome-shell, kde, and openbox + compton) , don't have problems like that on any other distro I've tried, and I've tried many and it seemed a rather bad bug to release a stable distro with!

Anyway, I'm currently on xubuntu 13.04, probably the most stable distro I've used on this laptop so far (well once I enabled the proposed repo and updated to the new kernel, because raring was released with one that is ridiculously b0rked: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...x/+bug/1169984)

Anyway, onto the topic at hand, the screenshot


Xubuntu 13.04 with greybird gtk and squarebird xfwm, compton, and cairo-dock with humanity theme.

[loukingjr]

interesting. Debian 7, so far anyway, is the best behaved distro in VirtualBox on a Mac host for me anyway. I have no issues with compositing unlike several others. I have to say though as far as Ubuntu 13.04 based distros, depending on the spin, it has been everything from completely stable to completely unstable.

[Mikeb85]

You got sick of your OS randomly breaking on you,


...so you moved to a bleeding edge rolling release distribution.

Can't be any worse than Ubuntu...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS would just randomly break after updates, and become completely unusable... Keep in mind it was a completely plain install, only software from the official repositories, nothing modified in any way, pretty standard hardware. On the other hand I had much better luck with 13.04, though it was still far from perfect. openSUSE was pretty good, nice and stable, but some of the standard settings and behaviour were annoying...

I've heard of Arch and it's stability (or lack thereof), but their philosphy makes sense, and it can't be worse than what I've dealt with using Ubuntu....