On Sunday 18 September 2016 11:13:03 Brian wrote: > > Lisi Reisz composed on 2016-09-17 11:56 (UTC+0100): > > >Alan McConnell wrote: > > >>Alas for the days of wheezy, when everything _worked_!! > > > > > >Wheezy is LTS (though admittedly more successfully for servers), so if > > >everything Just Worked, and you liked it, why did you change? There are > > >indeed valid reasons, but what is yours? > > > > I sense Alan expects everyone here has read and remembers every post he > > has written. He told us his, though indirectly: > > > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2016/09/msg00296.html > > > > Synopsis: > > Wheezy was on old puter, with mature hardware supported by FOSS. > > Jessie is on new (unspecified model) Dell (with Win10), with unknown > > hardware with unknown FOSS support. > > Contrasting the behaviour of machine A with machine B (worked on my old > machine, works fine with Windows etc) and indulging in nostalgia is only > of passing interest when the objective is to get an aspect of machine A > to function. If is like telling a doctor you ran a marathon every week > twenty years ago when the present issue is having two broken legs.
Yes. Someone had referred to upgrading and I mistakenly followed it. My memory isn't up to yours or his. Mea culpa. I have elsewhere asked whether the chip was a Skylake. That can cause problems with Jessie (sound was one of them). Been there. Done that. Got the very bloody tee-shirt. I did, elsewhere in the thread, ask why he didn't use something other than Jessie, which might suit better. I was actually thinking of Stretch or Mint. (I woudl use Stretch. ;-) ) But any more modern distro might get on better with what may be very modern (certainly fairly recent) hardware. (Why didn't I use Stretch, instead of Skylake with Jessie? It wasn't my computer, and would have involved using either another DE or not-yet-ready software.) Lisi
