Quick Debian 9 review

[SCHISCHKA]

I installed Debian 9 over the weekend and spent two working days with it. Heres a quick few things I experienced and why I'm moving back to Ubuntu 16.04. I verified my installation USB and did an upgrade after installation but still ran into some issues. I'm using Nvidia proprietary drivers.

+ They fixed the bug with USB installation where it complains it cant find the installation CD.

- The root account password does not get set correctly and the user account does not get added to sudoers. You have to boot into a liveCD and chroot to your installation to set the root password. Pain in the arse.

- Gnome is incredibly slow, even on SSD. Logging in and just doing anything is ridiculous. Debian has never been as good as other distributions for user friendliness but i draw a line at lagginess. Just now gnome crashed so im going back to ubuntu.

 

I was planning to report more but I've had enough of it.

If anyone knows why gnome sucks so much on Debian 9 please let me know and ill give it another go on my old laptop, but I don't think I will be recommending debian 9 for now

[TheGhzGuy]

3 minutes ago, SCHISCHKA said:

I installed Debian 9 over the weekend and spent two working days with it. Heres a quick few things I experienced and why I'm moving back to Ubuntu 16.04. I verified my installation USB and did an upgrade after installation but still ran into some issues. I'm using Nvidia proprietary drivers.

+ They fixed the bug with USB installation where it complains it cant find the installation CD.

- The root account password does not get set correctly and the user account does not get added to sudoers. You have to boot into a liveCD and chroot to your installation to set the root password. Pain in the arse.

- Gnome is incredibly slow, even on SSD. Logging in and just doing anything is ridiculous. Debian has never been as good as other distributions for user friendliness but i draw a line at lagginess. Just now gnome crashed so im going back to ubuntu.

 

I was planning to report more but I've had enough of it.

If anyone knows why gnome sucks so much on Debian 9 please let me know and ill give it another go on my old laptop, but I don't think I will be recommending debian 9 for now

Not related to Debian, but I have Ubuntu running on a 7 year old laptop with a 7 year old HDD. A little choppy, but infinitely better than Windows was. Hasn't crashed yet and it's been running 24/7 (BOINC Computing) for two months without a single crash.

[NoRomanBatmansAllowed]

14 minutes ago, TheGhzGuy said:

Not related to Debian, but I have Ubuntu running on a 7 year old laptop with a 7 year old HDD. A little choppy, but infinitely better than Windows was. Hasn't crashed yet and it's been running 24/7 (BOINC Computing) for two months without a single crash.

I'm pretty sure Ubuntu is based on Debian.

[SCHISCHKA]

6 hours ago, bob51zhang said:

I'm pretty sure Ubuntu is based on Debian.

yes it is but canonical does make changes and on one of phoronix's Jan posts it showed ubuntu outperformed debian on various benchmarks, and then lost on some others; what im saying is they are not identical but compatible. Ubuntu really captures a testing branch that it likes, but it wont be the same as what the Debian management team chooses to put into their stable release. Ubuntu's goal is to polish off the user experience and commercialise it.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux-desktop-start17&num=1

My post is about how unimpressed I am with the debian 9.0 release

[SCHISCHKA]

6 hours ago, TheGhzGuy said:

Not related to Debian, but I have Ubuntu running on a 7 year old laptop with a 7 year old HDD. A little choppy, but infinitely better than Windows was. Hasn't crashed yet and it's been running 24/7 (BOINC Computing) for two months without a single crash.

yea ubuntu's good for that. its taking over Microsoft's Azure for a good reason. I'm finding Ubuntu Server is getting so much better with every iteration