Arch is hard to replace
There’s a good reason I stayed with Arch for so long: it was simple, easy, behaved exactly as it should and it didn’t break. Until now.
The random plasma crashes are probably because of the recent upgrade to KDE 4.4, and I’m reasonably sure it would be solved if I delete the .kde dir or, in the worst case scenario, reinstall. In fact, I’m pretty sure the plasmoids I have installed from the AUR are the problem…
But the network problems baffle me. I don’t have these in other Linux distributions, but I don’t use them as much as I use Arch. The problem is only with the wired connection, my wireless LinkSys USB wireless thingamajammy could always connect (up until it fell and broke ). I’m beginning to think the cable might be too long…grasping at straws here.
In any case, I started looking at possible replacements. Over the last couple of days, I tried quite a few:
- Debian testing (both netinstall + KDE and the most recent KDE version of CD1)
- OpenSuse (both netinstall and the GNOME live version)
- Mandriva 2010
- Sidux 2009.04
- Linux Mint
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