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    Trials of Kubuntu 15.04

    I'm having a *lot* of trouble getting Kubuntu 15.04 to work smoothly. I'm posting here not looking for specific solutions, but rather trying to get a sense of whether others are having similar problems and to vent a little.

    First off, let me explain my usage profile. I'm looking primarily for media consumption (music and videos mostly) and games. I'm not a developer, and have only a passing interest in programming. So why Linux? Firstly, audio quality. I'm not sure of the technical reasons why, but music sounds much better on Linux than Windows. The hardware can be absolutely identical, but if Linux has an audio driver for the sound card, the audio sounds leagues better than on Windows. Secondly, I'm a born tinkerer. Linux really scratches that itch. Finally, I admire the ideals of open source, even if I'm not religious about implementing it. If I were, I'd probably stick to the idealogically pure Debian, and forget about DRM'd games.

    So why KDE? For me it's the most usable desktop environment of all the major desktops, KDE 5 is gorgeous, and I love the notification system and the strides that have been made in usability.

    But I'm having no end of problems with graphics drivers. Open source and proprietary drivers both have issues, for both nVidia and AMD. Am I alone in this, or are other users having any problems with graphics drivers? Is this something peculiar to 15.04, or could I dodge this bullet by downgrading to 14.10? Ironically, the only hardware I've had no problems with is my ancient Radeon 5750. It runs the fglrx driver, sddm and Plasma 5 with nary a hiccup. Downgrading my graphics card is not a palatable option to get a smoothly functioning OS.

    So in conclusion, is anyone else having issues or am I an outlier? Is it because Kubuntu 15.04 is being too "bleeding edge" by pushing KDE 5 Plasma? Should I just give up on the latest release and look to an older distro?

    #2
    I keep 14.04-LTS as my main system(5 OS installs @hear) ,,,,but I do not have trouble with my GTX-860M Nvidia on 15.04 with the 346.59 driver installed from the standard repos.

    what are the issues you are having ?

    VINNY
    i7 4core HT 8MB L3 2.9GHz
    16GB RAM
    Nvidia GTX 860M 4GB RAM 1152 cuda cores

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      #3
      It is likely a little bit of everything. Graphics reliability sometimes is a crap shoot in Linux, and with 15.04, a new kernel, a new init system and a new desktop might gang up on someone.

      It is difficult to gage how truly common a situation is, as someone who has minimal or no problems does not rant and rave go to support venues over it.

      I have 15.04 exclusively on 3 machines, one PC with Nvidia graphics as a desktop/media center combo. No driver or graphical problems at all, and only the small issues, mostly (for me) very minor annoyances.I run Kodi and Steam just fine, though as it is a lower end card modern "heavy" games do not play well.
      Last edited by claydoh; Jun 13, 2015, 11:42 AM.

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        #4
        Originally posted by vinnywright View Post
        I keep 14.04-LTS as my main system(5 OS installs @hear) ,,,,but I do not have trouble with my GTX-860M Nvidia on 15.04 with the 346.59 driver installed from the standard repos.

        what are the issues you are having ?

        VINNY
        I've posted about them here: https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showth...-NVidia-driver

        and here: https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showth...fglrx-and-sddm

        One poster says my GTX 670 is a problem child that NVidia hasn't bothered to fix. No replies yet to the AMD problem.

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          #5
          Teunis, have you tried the Xorg Edgers PPA with 15.04 on your W520?

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            #6
            Stuff "works" for a while, and then starts breaking. Time to think about possible causes of degradation over time. First thing that comes to mind is a memory leak. See http://serverfault.com/questions/257...-to-detect-wha for a list of some tools to use.

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              #7
              Originally posted by Teunis
              It will originally show to use some 28K of memory but this will over time grow., like 66K after some 15 mins.
              Classic memory leak!

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                #8
                Originally posted by SteveRiley View Post
                Classic memory leak!
                A leak of 38 kiB isn't going to cause much trouble in itself; maybe it's a sign of a thread running away consuming graphics resources?

                Regards, John Little
                Regards, John Little

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                  #9
                  That's plausible. Memory leaks are often symptoms of other, more troublesome, problems.

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