I want a solid rolling release so bad!
I tried and quickly gave up on Manjero last summer, even if it hadn’t self-destructed twice when the screen blanker kicked it (the second time I’d disabled it, but it re-enabled itself and broke again on the next update cycle) the constant password nagging was giving me carpal tunnel. The 14.xx Netrunner got off to a decent start but eventually some update went bad and it wouldn’t boot so I gave up and tried Ubuntu Mate 14.04, which was ok, but had many annoying issues, the worst was after a reboot Caja was in an infinite loop of launching processes making the system useless until I manually opened a termanal and did a killall command.
So now I’m trying Netrunner again and so far its been pretty good, on two systems: an i5 laptop with NVidia graphics and a quad core AMD with Nvidia graphics. I too had to move from the Nouveau driver to Nvidia 340 on the laptop and thus went straight for the non-free install on the quad core.
I’m not a fan of KDE/plasma so far. I had the problem with installed software not populating the menu, but the update and cp -r …/…/etc/skel/. . as found on the forum here seems to have fixed things. My main issus is things seem to appear and disappear – for example the opposite-click on the desltop popup menu Desktop Settings entry has come and gone multiple times, the virtual desktop pager has disappeared a few time too
The save session on logout seems much inferior to what I’ve been used to with Ubuntu 10.04 (still my main system, but its been a fight to get some needed updated software to compile and install (QT5 and Android Studio in particular).
I really liked that the Java SDK was current enough to allow Android Studio to install without hassle.
I don’t like that Kodi has crashed the system several times – connecting to a UPNP server on the quad core and trying to play a DVD disk on the laptop. Maybe the 15.2 update will be the cure, but so far “it crahses if I do that – so don’t do that!” has made it usable.
Does Muon Discover actually do anything? Seems to be nothing but GUI with no actual function.
I also like that the auto login option now works, although it failed once and needed a password on a laptop restart, but has been fine since I re-enabled it.
I understand things can change or break with a rolling release, but if it doesn’t make what I need unusable for too long or happen too often, it’ll be worth it to finally get off the installation treadmill.