When I first installed Maui 1 (after a few tweaks!), everything worked really well. I was very happy. 
But now, little things are going wrong.
Like the trouble with downloading certain things in Firefox (started a week or so ago). More often now (every other day or so), shutting the lid won't put the computer to sleep, and I either have to shut it down or hunt through the processess to see if I can happen to stop the right one. Today, my touchpad worked intermittently - all of the time, a physical click works, but the tap stopped working sometimes. Also today, I suddenly can't save anything to the mac section of my hard-drive, although I could last time I wanted to. They are all small things that sometimes happen and sometimes don't; but they're adding up and becoming rather annoying as a whole. And all of them have begun in the last few weeks.
My question is - is this likely to be a result of some upgrades, and perhaps I should reinstall Maui 2 and just stay there? Un-update whatever the last several that showed up on Update Manager were? (I have no idea how to do this.) Is there some kind of regular maintenance I should have been doing that I didn't know about? (I haven't used windows for so long that I kind of forgot about things like that. I read that linux doesn't need to be defragged, but is there something else I should be doing?) Is it just a function of time, and linux is going to slowly break no matter what? Or shall I hope that another upgrade will solve whatever problems the previous updates appear to have introduced?
Thanks in advance for any advice.
Chelle
But now, little things are going wrong. Like the trouble with downloading certain things in Firefox (started a week or so ago). More often now (every other day or so), shutting the lid won't put the computer to sleep, and I either have to shut it down or hunt through the processess to see if I can happen to stop the right one. Today, my touchpad worked intermittently - all of the time, a physical click works, but the tap stopped working sometimes. Also today, I suddenly can't save anything to the mac section of my hard-drive, although I could last time I wanted to. They are all small things that sometimes happen and sometimes don't; but they're adding up and becoming rather annoying as a whole. And all of them have begun in the last few weeks.
My question is - is this likely to be a result of some upgrades, and perhaps I should reinstall Maui 2 and just stay there? Un-update whatever the last several that showed up on Update Manager were? (I have no idea how to do this.) Is there some kind of regular maintenance I should have been doing that I didn't know about? (I haven't used windows for so long that I kind of forgot about things like that. I read that linux doesn't need to be defragged, but is there something else I should be doing?) Is it just a function of time, and linux is going to slowly break no matter what? Or shall I hope that another upgrade will solve whatever problems the previous updates appear to have introduced?
Thanks in advance for any advice.
Chelle