Even while writing this e-mail, the system 'froze' several times.

[Bruce Bales]

On 06/10/2013 06:13 PM, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Monday, June 10, 2013 04:34:40 PM D. R. Evans wrote:
>> Bas G. Roufs - En. said the following at 06/06/2013 04:57 AM :
>>> Hello Everybody ,
>>>
>>> ever since Kubuntu 12.04 , the system 'freezes' several times each day.
>> Yep. My freezes last about 15 seconds and then suddenly everything is
>> responsive again.
> I had the "freezies" a couple of releases ago but it was gone in 12.10 and
> also in 13.04
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>
>> <OT rant>
>> My observation over the past few years is that for every thing that gets
>> fixed in a new release, in general something else breaks. 13.04 has not
>> conformed to this tradition in that there are definitely more broken things
>> here than there were in 12.10. For example, my monitor will no longer power
>> off after a period of inactivity.
> An old bug...  some sessions it will turn off, some sessions not.  I
> eventually put in a cron job of
>
> 3 * * * *  /usr/bin/xset -display :0 dpms 1200,0,0
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> which seemed to help.
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>
When I first heard of Linux, maybe ten years ago, there was talk that it 
should replace Windows.  Everyone would use it.  I started using it and 
have used it exclusively for about ten years, using Mandrake, Red Hat, 
Fedora, Mint, Puppy linux, Kubuntu 5, 6, 7, 8 and a bunch of others I 
have heard of and forgotten.  I got along pretty well until Kubuntu 8.04 
lost its support -- seems like it was about 2010 or 11.

After 8.04 there was no more Kmail.  Other things got complicated. I 
could no longer put a vertical panel on the left edge to hold icons for 
the programs I would use.  Unimportant, large panels popped up where 
they block information.  The panel across the bottom has unneeded 
information and doesn't have what I need.  And the tabs on the bottom 
panel move around and like to pick their own location.

There is a tab sticking out of the right side of my Kubuntu 12-04 screen 
that says "new activity."  What do you suppose that means?

What if someone had changed the name of Kubuntu 8-04 to 
Kubuntu-permanent, made some small changes to Kmail and supported it for 
another ten years?  Maybe some of those Windows users might switch 
over.  Maybe I wouldn't have spent the last three months trying to get a 
working system.  Maybe someone besides a computer engineer could use it.

Can you imagine the average Windows user doing

"put in a cron job of 3 * * * *  /usr/bin/xset -display :0 dpms 1200,0,0"  ??

I'm sorry.  I know I shouldn't complain.  Linux free.  But it could be 
so much better.
bruce