I really love Linux desktops, but they have too many stability issues/crashes to completely switch from Windows to Ubuntu or any other linux distribution.
- HEADLINE: Increased stability++
I shy away from using my ubuntu laptop (dell xps developer edition, you know, the one you'd expect to be doing this really well) because
a) More often than not when starting up it gives me a "something went wrong, do you want to report it dialogue"? I've stopped bother to report it or look at what's happening because it happens so often, but I think it's X crashing at some point.
b) WiFi frequently fails to connect after hibernation, requiring a reboot.
c) There's also been some worrying threads on HN about lack of support for strong kernel power management on recent intel generations.
`sudo iwlist scan` fixes it without reboot in my case. But it is very irritating.
`sudo systemctl restart network-manager.service` fixes it without having to reboot, other times even that doesn't work.
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Desktop
- HEADLINE: Improved wifi network support
- DESCRIPTION: Most of the time I don't have an issue, but occasionally (ok once a month at the venue that hosts our Java developer group) I have network issues that I never had when this laptop was running windows (7 or 10). Basically at this one location I can't stay hooked up to the network for more than 5 minutes without a disconnect, none of the windows/mac users around me have an issue.
- ROLE/AFFILIATION: Developer.