From: bliss@mouse-potato.com   
      
   On 09/22/2016 08:14 AM, Doug Laidlaw wrote:   
   >   
   > DistroWatch has a comprehensive review of OpenMandriva 3.0   
   > with many screenshots.  The conclusion was not so good:   
   >   
   > "Usually I enjoy using OpenMandriva as it tends to have a   
   > newcomer friendly approach and a great Control Centre.   
   > This time around though the distribution performed too slowly   
   > to be practical for me to use and introduced too many bugs   
   > for me to consider version 3.0 beginner friendly."   
      
   	I did not much care for it on the Dell E6420.  I am still   
   keeping it to do updates and see if it gets better,   
      
   >   
   > IMO, Mageia is still the natural successor to Mandriva.   
   > No other distro I have tried is as configurable as Mandriva   
   > and its forks.  PCLinuxOS is another fork, but hasn't yet   
   > reached systemd or UEFI.  Fedora and Suse can't tolerate   
   > another distro alongside them, and configuration is painful.   
   >   
   	Fedora and SuSe are aimed at bleeding edge followers   
   and the reason that they don't want other distribution is   
   because of their licensed keys(at least on Fedora from MS).   
      
   	 PCLOS does have UEFI support.  Arguably systemd   
   is not an advance in the art.  PCLOS in its preview   
   version of 2016.07 using KDE 5.7 brags about this neglect   
   of the latest complication with the new slogan   
     "Radically Simple".   
   	None of the distributions I have used have all the Grub2   
   files that are needed by multiple boot setups though.   
   	Solution for me was to download to each distribution   
   the Grub2 files I needed.  Basically this amounts to grub-organizer   
   and on my Dell E6420 I run PCLOS as the master system which sets   
   up the grub2 menu for that system with Windows 7, PCLOS, Open Mandriva   
   and Salix.  I had Mageia 6sta on that disk but every update brought   
   it down so I felt no qualms with wiping it out and putting Salix   
   there.   
   	On this Pavilion I first had Windows 8.1, I installed Mageia 4.1   
   and then Mageia 5RC which I switched to using daily.  When I heard   
   about a version of PCLinux OS which supports UEFI in 2016.03 I installed   
   it where Mageia 4.1 had been. I started to use PCLOS 2016.03 at once, I   
   have a little problem getting to the Mageia 5 but I can work there if I   
   need to do so,  And messing about with the installation of Mageia 4.1   
   and getting it correct finally was how I learned after making at least   
   6 mistakes resulting in 3 re-installs including of Windows 8.1.   
      
   	You want to have a copy of SuperGrub2 Disk handy if you want a proper   
   install of PCLOS on a multi-boot system because of the post-install   
   reboot and configuration. On a single or dual-boot install   
   you might not need it.   
      
   	bliss   
   	   
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