From: bliss@mouse-potato.com
On 08/17/2016 07:56 AM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
> On 08/17/2016 05:17 AM, Doug Laidlaw wrote:
>> Bobbie Sellers Wrote in message:
>>>
>>> Hi Typers and Readers,
>>>
>>> On Distrowatch on Saturday AM we had OpenMandrivaLx 3.0 out in
>>> i586 and in x86_64. Since have verified checksums and written them
>>> to disk.
>>> I got a big update of over 500 files on my OpenMabdrivaLx 3.0-RC-1
>>> x86_64 install on the Dell e6420 in the last couple of days so my
>>> install may have been upgraded but in a few minutes I will go and
>>> test that.
>>>
>>> Well unexpected lack in the Einsteinium installer in that it has no
>>> upgrade option. It had nothing to do on my system.
>>> The partition tool called by the installer lacks a "label" option.
>>>
>>> KDE's Plasma 5.7.x is missing valued widgets and plugins.
>>>
>>> Otherwise it runs ok.
>>> It falls short of the original Mandriva.
>>>
>>> I wish they had waited for the KDE Plasma 5.8-LTS but then
>>> you would have had to wait on this article until late fall.
>>>
>>> I will do a clean install in the next week or so then see if
>>> this article needs amendment.
>>>
>>> bliss
>>>
>>>
>> I keep installing other distros and staying with Mageia.
>> Is plasma 5
>> more than usable? Even the reviews say
>> it isn't.
>>
>
> Whether you consider Plasma 5 usable depends on how you have been
> using KDE's Plasma interface in the past. If a reviewer uses
> Gnome habitually or anything but KDE's Plasma in the past they may
> not realize the subtle shortcomings of the unfinished Plasma 5.
>
> I will reiterate other desktop management software falls short
> in comparison with KDE's desktop management. The digital clock display
> fall short, the plugins for KDE's editors are missing "insert file" if
> nothing else, a tool I use every week or more often. Several of the
> widgets have disappeared, the digital clock widget which comes installed
> is no longer capable of being directly copied to the clipboard in
> several formats such as Wednesday, August 17, 2016 or Wednesday, August
> 17, 2016 07:10:48 AM or even 2016-08-17 07:11:23 AM or simply
> 2016-08-17. Can you guess I use this every day? And I use several
> formats frequently during the course of the day.
>
> I am not sure but I think that KDE's desktop interface is the
> only one with such utility. I don't see it at all except in Mate where
> you can copy the time or the date from the desktop clock.
>
> I do not have to switch from KDE's "KDE - Be Free!
> Platform Version 4.14.18" as I can continue to run whichever
> distro in a Virtual Box with some other up-to-date system
> providing the base. I don't want to do that because that
> will double the complications of using a system.
>
> I would much rather that the KDE people would pay
> attention to the details and finish their new Plasma desktop
> management interfaces. And of course anyone is free to use
> whatever distribution answers their needs best. My needs are
> perhaps different than those of other folks as I am a rotten
> typist with dyspraxia making the need for frequent corrections
> very likely. The only reason that I seem better is the
> spell checker and the slowness with which I proceed at 07:54 AM.
>
> bliss
>
` Today I installed 3 updates to OpenMandriva Lx and tried to
use VLC to watch a show, VLC did not find the codecs so I copied them
to my micro-SDcard and installed them using MC, according to the
enclosed instructions but it still could not find the required codec.
The sound seems choppy as well.
I gave up on it for a while.
bliss
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