Thinking of trying out Debian

[GreyGeek]

Debian-8-KDE ,,,, ya KDE 4

@GG I do not see a mix of plasma4 and 5 hear and this is vary stable ,,,,,,,, perhaps you had added unstable to your sources ?

VINNY

Same release level as the one I tried out? It had problems with the qtchooser app not working properly. When I tried Arch I found plasma5 very fast and sttable. But, as I wrote, the more I used it the less I liked it. I need a better set of eyeballs to use P5.

[dequire]

14.04 LTS will be supported for a long time. I plan on checking out 16.04.1 when it comes out, but I have no problem running 14.04 on my main rig for a long time to come. KDE 4 is just fine, KDE-PIM aside.

[vinnywright]

14.04 LTS will be supported for a long time. I plan on checking out 16.04.1 when it comes out, but I have no problem running 14.04 on my main rig for a long time to come. KDE 4 is just fine, KDE-PIM aside.

... I have 14.04 and a 15.10 that was "do-release-upgrade -d" ed to 16.04 on this box as well

VINNY

[vinnywright]

I have strange problems with 14.04, through it's updates it has aqcuired the same video problems that plague 15.10 and to a lesser extend 16.04.

The problems are mainly around cold booting into a black screen and the panel insisting on displaying on the wrong monitor.
Over the past 4 years this never happened on this Thinkpad until about end of last year.

?,,,,,,,I have never had this problem myself on any of those ,,,14.04 , 15.10 0r 16.04 with this hardware

vinny@debian:~$ inxi -Fz
System:    Host: debian Kernel: 3.16.0-4-amd64 x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop: KDE 4.14.2 Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 8 
Machine:   Mobo: System76 model: Bonobo Extreme v: bonx8 Bios: American Megatrends v: 4.6.5 date: 04/15/2014
CPU:       Quad core Intel Core i7-4910MQ (-HT-MCP-) cache: 8192 KB 
           Clock Speeds: 1: 3764 MHz 2: 3771 MHz 3: 3723 MHz 4: 3793 MHz 5: 3760 MHz 6: 3755 MHz 7: 3709 MHz
           8: 3550 MHz
Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA GK104M [GeForce GTX 860M]
           Display Server: X.Org 1.16.4 driver: nvidia Resolution: 1920x1080@60.01hz
           GLX Renderer: GeForce GTX 860M/PCIe/SSE2 GLX Version: 4.4.0 NVIDIA 340.96
Audio:     Card-1 Intel 8 Series/C220 Series High Definition Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel 
           Card-2 NVIDIA GK104 HDMI Audio Controller driver: snd_hda_intel 
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k3.16.0-4-amd64
Network:   Card-1: Intel Wireless 3160 driver: iwlwifi
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
           Card-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver: r8169
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 1500.3GB (31.2% used) ID-1: /dev/sdb model: HGST_HTS721010A9 size: 1000.2GB
           ID-2: /dev/sda model: HGST_HTS725050A7 size: 500.1GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 55G used: 12G (22%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda5 
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 4.29GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 52.0C mobo: N/A gpu: 53C 
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A 
Info:      Processes: 272 Uptime: 1 day Memory: 1805.0/16034.2MB Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.1.28

ya ,,,,I'm booted to the Debian install at the moment.

Otherwise, KDE4 has a lot more to offer as plasmoids, so far very few have been ported to Plasma5.

,,,,,,,,,and I would half to concur with that

VINNY