10th October 2016, 5:16
(10th October 2016, 4:41)spacepenguin Wrote: Glad it's solved for you. Didn't want you to feel goosy- I'm into Ubuntu based distributions only since Netrunner 17, coming from Debian Sid (since y2k) - and therefore am drilled to do some research especially before updating the Nvidia driver... Never mind, learning by failing is hard sometimes but benefits in the end - and I had my blonde moments too, and still sometimes have
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Ta. Well clearly you have some cool Linux pedigree there, so i'm envious. I've only been in Linux since late 2013, & before that twas a lifetime in Windows, since ~1990. I cannot begin to adequately explain just how huge a breath of fresh air Linux has been for me, after the claustrophobia* of Windows. The downside of my late conversion is that there's just so much i still don't know, or am not yet good at, but the upsides are immense & wonderful. I know it's cliche, but the range of choice, & the nearly limitless customisability, of "Linux" won me over almost as soon as i belatedly discovered this multiverse. Initially i was bewildered about what distro & desktop environment would suit me, but via many live ISOs [= fun!] eventually found that *buntu-based distros somehow seemed to "gel" more with me. Then, when i specifically discovered KDE [Mint 13 --> 16 --> 17.x] i was in paradise (I've always been a details geek, & so the sheer minute granularity of KDE's options is catnip to my cat]. I really enjoyed my erstwhile Mint 17.3 KDE4, & seriously [naively] thought there couldn't be a better fit for me. Then only so recently i discovered Maui, & I appear to be thoroughly "hooked". If indeed that recent driver downgrade i made truly ends all those dozens of KWin crashes, then i will be one happy camper. Per some other Maui forum threads there's still some lingering issues with 5.8.0, but compared to the crashes they're just minor & i'm entirely willing to wait for future solutions. Another bonus i'm utterly enjoying with Maui so far, is the support & friendliness. Me likes!! Ta for your help
* corny as this will sound, for me, finding Linux was my The Matrix - Neo -- moment, when i discovered that all that time i had been tied down & locked into the machine, without even knowing it. OMZ, pulling out that last tube was scary but glorious!!