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<p>Where my Lubuntu 18.04 i386 systems all started to no longer boot
reliably, it motivated me to switch them to Debian. <br>
</p>
<p>The things that cause me problems with Debian, so far, is that
there is a long delay during the reboot after installing Debian 9,
where it seems to be doing nothing at all, and you really have to
just wait for it to complete. Debian 10 doesn't have that
problem, and uses the same installer as Lubuntu 18.10
(Calamares). <br>
</p>
<p>The other problem, is that wireless support on Debian is much
poorer than with Ubuntu. It surprised me that I have only one
wireless dongle that works with Debian out-of-the-box. After some
effort installing things, I was able to get the Broadcom (b43)
wireless of my HP Mini working. The wireless of my 32-bit MacBook
also worked out-of-the-box. <br>
</p>
<p>From what I read, all of the Debian releases are supported for 5
years, so Debian 10 should be good until July of 2024. <br>
</p>
<p>I now know enough to help my kids migrate their systems to Debian
10. <br>
</p>
<p>Where so many of my machines are now on Debian, perhaps I should
join that band of Debian purists. <br>
</p>
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<pre class="gmail-m_-4929086999998951172moz-signature" cols="72">Sincerely,
Aere</pre>
<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div>AG:</div><div><br></div><div>So far the Sid/Buster system I have installed has been
pretty clear to get done on the install, and in this machine I use ethernet . . . so
no problems connecting; but I do get the "you should install the b43
module" . . . error, but I just ignore it. When I first installed it
Buster/Sid booted up super fast, flew through the dmesg page and into
the GUI log in in the blink of an eye . . . but, over time we've had
some growing pains and it lashed out at the other systems . . . doing
damage . . . and so other systems had to be re-installed after the
Sid/Buster . . . and that seemed to get Buster to "lose track of swap"
and other errors requiring "thought processing" on the boot up . . . and
so now it boots fairly sedately . . . for a 64 bit system.</div><div><br></div><div>You
could try to join the purists, but they seem to be "picky" . . . and
not exactly "warm" . . . being more on the "technical" side of the
personality spectrum . . . .</div><div><br></div><div>But, it does seem a
bit "early" for problems to be showing up in 18.04 ?? which should
still be "current" LTS across the platforms?? Anyway, you would have
had to move to keep the 32 bit units going sometime soon . . . perhaps
Debian will have more motivation to support the 32 bit crowd compared to
the low motivation for the bleating PPC crowd . . . where the "death of PPC" was a slow and lingering thing, followed by dropping it like a stone ?? : - (((((<br></div><div><br></div><div>F</div> </div></div></div>