spy beef Posted November 8, 2014 Share Posted November 8, 2014 I have been running Kubuntu 14.04 on my laptop for a couple months. It's fine most of the time, but there are annoying bugs that pop up from time to time which forces me to restart. It's so annoying that I'm look into switching to another distro such as Debian testing + KDE. Will Debian testing be more stable than Kubuntu 14.04? I don't want to go through the hassle of resintalling everything and find out there are no improvements in stability. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindovermaster Moderator Posted November 8, 2014 Moderator Share Posted November 8, 2014 Well, Debian will give you the latest and greatest, but not really as secure. Similar to Arch, it can break. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonlang Posted November 8, 2014 Share Posted November 8, 2014 I have been running Kubuntu 14.04 on my laptop for a couple months. It's fine most of the time, but there are annoying bugs that pop up from time to time which forces me to restart. It's so annoying that I'm look into switching to another distro such as Debian testing + KDE. Will Debian testing be more stable than Kubuntu 14.04? I don't want to go through the hassle of resintalling everything and find out there are no improvements in stability. can't confirm this. running kubuntu 14.04 for months and only need to restart after a kernel installation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spy beef Posted November 8, 2014 Author Share Posted November 8, 2014 can't confirm this. running kubuntu 14.04 for months and only need to restart after a kernel installation. It's probably the hardware I'm running it on which is a Dell n4110 laptop. Plugging and unplugging the VGA cable will sometimes distort the displays on both the laptop and external monitor and it won't got back to normal without a restart. I can't wake up from sleep sometimes, which results in losing all my work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonlang Posted November 8, 2014 Share Posted November 8, 2014 It's probably the hardware I'm running it on which is a Dell n4110 laptop. Plugging and unplugging the VGA cable will sometimes distort the displays on both the laptop and external monitor and it won't got back to normal without a restart. I can't wake up from sleep sometimes, which results in losing all my work! do you use the open/free driver for your graphics card or the proprietary one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spy beef Posted November 9, 2014 Author Share Posted November 9, 2014 I'm using the Intel HD 3000 driver that comes with the installation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonlang Posted November 9, 2014 Share Posted November 9, 2014 I'm using the Intel HD 3000 driver that comes with the installation. don't know much about intel as all i ever had have been amd/ati related, but you might give the driver from the intel website a try https://01.org/linuxgraphics/downloads/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haggis Veteran Posted November 10, 2014 Veteran Share Posted November 10, 2014 Intel drive should work perfectly fine out of the box, i have the same but the 4000 series Debian is good and very stable but not up tp date as other distros i am using Linux Mint and its fine for me : Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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