Re: Have a really good feeling about stretch.

[Gedalya <gedalya@gedalya.net>]

On 03/25/2016 10:56 PM, Brian Gupta wrote:
> I've been running Jessie on my heavily modified but ancient T61. (It's
> got the cursed x3100 Intel GMA integrated video). It's been
> inconsistently performing, and the video sometimes glitches out.
>
> Because there were some "won't fix" bugs in the stable version of
> Gnome, I decided to upgrade to testing, and Stretch runs way better on
> this hardware. It's like the machine is new and fast again. (As much
> as a 9 year old laptop with a wimpy video accelerator can appear
> fast.) Gnome 3.18 is an improvement.
>
> The upgrade didn't go smoothly and I had to untangle some circular
> dependencies, but other than that, I am really pleased, and just
> wanted to share, in case others were on the fence about moving to
> testing.
>
> Cheers,
> Brian

I'm doing all work on a couple of desktops, a laptop (T430), and 
co-workers' hardware I'm responsible for helping with, all on stretch, 
closely following. Very little breakage.
Although I steer far away from gnome, or systemd for that matter.
I was just planning to put stretch on a veteran Dell Inspiron laptop 
tomorrow.