Comments on: PCLinuxOS 2007 installation review and first impressions

By: Mik

Mik — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 07:28:01 +0000

I have been using LInux on and off for around 12 years, started on Red hat. recently I have ditched Windows because I got absolutely fed up with the malware/spyware/virii and other stuff.
so over the last 6 months I have tried the following distributions., PCLinux, Suse 10.3, Suze 11, Sabayon, Fedora 8 AND 9 and I think one or 2 others along with MInt. Basically the problem with LInux is that it does not work correctly on everyones machine. PCLinux bomber for me because after around a month I was not able to log into the machine on anyones account, this happened 3 times before I ditched it. The intstallation was a breeze as was setting up the other stuff and I am really familiar with partitions and the like. but the re installations really bugged me and I couldnt find any help to my problem. suse10.3 and 11 is just too boring, I really really like sabayon but after system updates 3.5 I couldnt get my nvideo working it worked ok with 3.4f. The I used fedora but again had problems with the video card, so now I run Mint I think its a great system, it configured correctly everything first time and you can even un install programs from the menu and it will back up your added downloads to a cd so that you dont have to re download everything again. I have had to install it a second time again due to system updates that broke my machine, so I have placed a more conservative update so this is unlikely to happen again. Now on some peoples machine PCLinux and others will run perfect and maybe Mint may cause problems so the best advice I can give is dont decide on one system right away but try half a dozen then pick the one that fits in with your lifestyle and machine componants.

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By: NAyK

NAyK — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 02:30:59 +0000

To ola: (and 59?)… repairing an installation… well… I’ve not really had to repair a PCLOS installation… but I guess if we don’t know code etc… then I wouldn’t know how to do it other than a full reinstall. I confess that since I don’t know code… I’ve fixed a few Ubuntus and openSUSE’s by reinstalling… though I haven’t had the opportunity to do that with PCLOS.

However, I’ve not had a great time with Windows XP repair either… and I’ve thrice (in 4 years to be fair) had to reinstall Windows to once again get it to where I want it.

By: ola

ola — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 21:08:10 +0000

no help or response to 59 above? why cannot an installation be repaired much like you can an XP installation?

By: wallace

wallace — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:31:54 +0000

spme of u guys may want to share ur experiences about pclinuxos in this orkut forum about pclinuxos….
http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=37586510
hope to spread ur goodwill ….

By: johanes iwan

johanes iwan — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 14:41:32 +0000

me too so impressions my first distro is redhat 8.0,.

By: Manuel Otzoy

Manuel Otzoy — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 21:32:36 +0000

Despues de probar muchas distribuciones de Linux he quedado completamente encantado con PClinuxOS. Verdaderamente es simple de usar. Han hecho un gran trabajo. No he tenido ningún problema y lo recomiendo sin duda alguna. Tiene todo lo que uno pueda necesitar.

By: White Geek

White Geek — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:34:16 +0000

I can’t agree more with Grey Geek! See 07-sep.-7. The point is that many PC users aren’t 20-30 yrs of age, but older, like me… 61 already. My experience with Linux until 3 weeks ago was ZERO, had heard about it. From XP I changed to Vista to end up in an unacceptable loss of productivity caused by “updates” and lots of disturbing crashes. My ASUS P4P is, I admit, already 3 years old, too old? Guess not, having shifted to PCLOS2007 it unleashed its power and speed. The main attraction for me and point of decision: the distro came with all “my” software, claimed to work “out of the box”, and offered visual attractions far exceeding “glass” from Vista. TRUE, it worked right out of the box, it didn’t crash, I could easily download and install a properly working NVIDIA driver for my 5800XT, my SB-A2ZS worked well, packs of games for a son I could download in an instant, and I can reach my wife in her office instantanuously with Kopete.
Incredible, amazing, excellent work!! Recommended…
The important issue for “older” geeks is the transition to a Unix-like environment. With KDE and playing around with options like those from Beryl however you can quickly design your own “GUI” and setup all things the way YOU like it and nobody else! Although I wouldn’t make the mistake I made: making a dual boot system for XP or Vista. Older geeks will stop using them, I am sure, within a few days. My ‘transition’ took 1 week…
PCLinux2007 has much to offer, much in common, and appears to me the right tool at the right time to break bounds others try to impose on you.

By: Lars

Lars — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:04:07 +0000

Nice review. Haven’t tried any PCLOS distro but this review made me want to check it out…well sometime. Being a longtime Kubuntu user I’ve grown somewhat attached to it. I completely agree that any *buntu is down right ugly from the box, but I’m still looking forward to the release of KDE4 in december. Hopefully that will change the first impression of Kubuntu (and other KDE distros for that matter) and then I’ll decide if I should give PCLOS a chance.

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