From: youmustbejoking@lan.invalid   
      
   On Mon, 28 Sep 2015 21:07:43 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote:   
      
   > Hi former users of Mandriva,   
   >   
   > 		Mageia 5 got high marks in Distrowatch weekly recently.   
   > It is more like Mandriva at this point than any other distribution.   
   > It does have full support for UEFI installs but does not support the   
   > secure boot.   
   > 	Some long time users are having a multitude of problems   
   > though as you can read in the Usenet newsgroup.   
   >   
   > 		We are still waiting for Texstar to get the U/EFI   
   adaptation for   
   > PC-LOS finished and out for download.  In April he said it was taking a   
   > long time.   
   > 	I used PCLOS when I gave up on Mandriva 2010.2 which was   
   > quite a while after the 2011 failed to work on my notebook of the time.   
   >  When I had to get a new notebook due to physical failure of my older   
   > one, i had to change to Mageia 4.1 which supported UEFI and GPT.   
   >   
   > 		Open Mandriva has abandoned the KDE Desktop Manager   
   > which is sad I think but then Plasma 5 is not yet ready for prime time.   
   > But OM seems to support UEFI but since I don't care for the DM I have   
   > never bothered to install to my hard drive.   
   >   
   > 	bliss   
      
   Sounds like you should switch to a distro that actually works.   
      
   I suggest Slackware.   
      
      
      
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