welp, post-update. Wifi signal is still very weak.
i have this visual stutter issue when scrolling in an Internet browser and when moving any window around the desktop. the picture gets all chopped up and missing parts. Also when minimizing a window and when minimizing it gets stuck or appears to be stuck until the mouse is clicked/held/dragged on the screen..
Anywho, thanks for the suggestions/help, i was mostly hoping for an 'install and go' set up. better luck next time maybe. thanks again.
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So, writing this now after installing debian 9/testing. around 3 months ago, KDE was nonfunctional, but it seems stable and usable right now, i take back what i said(however, three months is a good amount of time for development). Anyhow, neat thing, after the kernal update, Maui was using 440mb idle after startup. KDE5 on debian is using 550mn at idle(pretty sure it could be trimmed down). LXQT was using 350 at idle.
But what i really wanted to add is that right now the signal strength has not changed on this new install.. btw, there is a neat command line input "nmcli d wifi" which will give a numerical value for signal strength if network manager is being used. What weird is that network manager reports a lower signal than WICD or wavemon. but i guess thats not new? https://answers.launchpad.net/wicd/+question/214922 However, my initial issue was holding a connection at all. Under the Maui live i kept getting a disconnection while fine under the debian install.
Overall, this seems a more or less smaller issue, i still recommend Maui to newcomers, but in my experience, my journey with linux tends to be an odd exception of issues and such.
i have this visual stutter issue when scrolling in an Internet browser and when moving any window around the desktop. the picture gets all chopped up and missing parts. Also when minimizing a window and when minimizing it gets stuck or appears to be stuck until the mouse is clicked/held/dragged on the screen..
Anywho, thanks for the suggestions/help, i was mostly hoping for an 'install and go' set up. better luck next time maybe. thanks again.
----edit
So, writing this now after installing debian 9/testing. around 3 months ago, KDE was nonfunctional, but it seems stable and usable right now, i take back what i said(however, three months is a good amount of time for development). Anyhow, neat thing, after the kernal update, Maui was using 440mb idle after startup. KDE5 on debian is using 550mn at idle(pretty sure it could be trimmed down). LXQT was using 350 at idle.
But what i really wanted to add is that right now the signal strength has not changed on this new install.. btw, there is a neat command line input "nmcli d wifi" which will give a numerical value for signal strength if network manager is being used. What weird is that network manager reports a lower signal than WICD or wavemon. but i guess thats not new? https://answers.launchpad.net/wicd/+question/214922 However, my initial issue was holding a connection at all. Under the Maui live i kept getting a disconnection while fine under the debian install.
Overall, this seems a more or less smaller issue, i still recommend Maui to newcomers, but in my experience, my journey with linux tends to be an odd exception of issues and such.