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Old 01-17-2007, 08:30 PM
Yrrah
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My PCLinuxOS experience

It sucks! It's slow! It uses a lot of RAM!
PCLinuxOS has two menu editors, its own and KDE's, and neither of them
works properly, so I can't add items to the menu. Removed items keep
coming back.
Booting results in an ever increasing stream of error messages.
Sound card is not recognized, neither are all resolutions and
refreshment rates of the monitor.
Installing applications is not half as easy as with Window$ and often
there is no control over where they go.
Installing other languages for the spell check failed.
It comes with a lot of unwanted sofware which is installed
automatically and has to be removed, but that applies to all
disctributions afaik.
I've looked at other distributions too but they did not recognize my
monitor or other hardware. The Ubuntu install window went right off
the screen so I could not even install that distribution.

As things stand now Linux is not a serious competitor. It's only for
hobbyists who like to play with an OS, I don't. If the Linux community
does not get their act together and develop a good and reliable Linux
GUI and stop this distribution **** with dozens or hundreds
automatically installed unwanted programs, Linux will remain something
for the sectarians only.

I've given up on Linux for now, after having tried for a few weeks.
Back to Window$ :-(

Yrrah



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Old 01-17-2007, 08:30 PM