dogbert0360
2014-07-07 14:39 deepin
This not a rant of course. All I'm trying give is a honest asessment to issues that should have been resolved earlier and of few improvement suggestions.
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1) "nvidia drivers" - There is a strange problem with these video drivers when I tried installing them in the rc release that caused the system slider dock to stop working along with the desktop hotspots. I expected them to be working when the final was issued but unfortunately this was not the case. Why?...
2) "Suspend mode" - When I tried to use this option my screen went dark which is what I expected it to do. But when I tried to wake the system up all I got was a wallpaper with no login window or system options.
I also noticed that Deepin 2014 is using btrfs file system which is cool. But one problem I had when installing in legacy (grub) mode was that it didn't install at all. When I rebooted I got a grub error so I rebooted the live disc and installed in UEFI mode. This worked fine but when I first used the installer I was told that my hard drive needed to be formatted in "GPT" format. If my hard drive was formatted in gpt would the legacy (grub) installation have worked?
"Suspend mode" usually is unable to wake up under Linux, so we give up this function.
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But there are a few issues that should have been fixed before the final release:
1) "nvidia drivers" - There is a strange problem with these video drivers when I tried installing them in the rc release that caused the system slider dock to stop working along with the desktop hotspots. I expected them to be working when the final was issued but unfortunately this was not the case. Why?...
2) "Suspend mode" - When I tried to use this option my screen went dark which is what I expected it to do. But when I tried to wake the system up all I got was a wallpaper with no login window or system options.
I also noticed that Deepin 2014 is using btrfs file system which is cool. But one problem I had when installing in legacy (grub) mode was that it didn't install at all. When I rebooted I got a grub error so I rebooted the live disc and installed in UEFI mode. This worked fine but when I first used the installer I was told that my hard drive needed to be formatted in "GPT" format. If my hard drive was formatted in gpt would the legacy (grub) installation have worked?
Another issue I had was with the graphical installer too. There needs to be more options as far as file system choices such as "ext4" and "LVM". "BTRFS" is fine but many other users may wish to use one of these file systems too. Last but not least is the live disc boot screen which should have an option "installation" and "system tools" which would give the user tools to do repairs such as bootup issues or file corruptions. Another utilities missing is "Startup Applications" so that a user can add or disable system functions.
Anyway the deepin dev crew should be congradulated on a fine distro and hope these issues will be addressed soon.