XPost: alt.os.linux.pclinuxos, alt.os.linux.mageia   
   From: laidlaws@hotkey.net.au   
      
   On 19/06/17 13:06, Bobbie Sellers wrote:   
   >       I was favorably impressed from the startup of the installer.   
   > It was so much like Mandriva.   
      
   Mageia still has the feel that Mandriva had before it disappeared for a   
   while.  Mandriva was designed to be user-friendly, and Mageia has   
   carried on the tradition.  Choice is part of what Linux is about.   
   OpenMandriva wants to create a usable desktop with only KDE.  That seems   
   to be next to impossible.  KDE is no longer just a DE, but tries to   
   configure the underlying system as well.  Its applications are good, and   
   I run them in Xfce.  GNOME's tools are second-rate by comparison.  Its   
   official TV player is one man's personal creation, and lacks any usable   
   menus.   
      
   I have tried several alternative distros, and keep coming back to   
   Mageia.  I currently have OpenSuse running as a second system.  It   
   filled up my /boot partition with kernels, and even the community  had   
   no real idea how to remove the oldest ones.  I install a package, and   
   find that all the dependencies are bundled with it.  Mageia lets you   
   know what is happening.  PCLinuxOS has a mixture of RPM and apt, and   
   like all compromises, it doesn't work as well as either one alone.   
   synaptic seems to be the best graphical installer I have come across,   
   but it doesn't have Mageia's urpmi.  LinuxMint is a preconfigured   
   system, good for those who want to accept what it gives.  Packages are   
   preconfigured to work "out of the box,"  with reasonable default   
   settings.  Proper configuration tools are omitted from the basic DVD,   
   leaving the user who wants to be a little bit different, out in the cold.   
      
   I acknowledge that preferences are a personal thing, and being a   
   long-time user of Mandrake/Mandriva/Mageia, I tend to see that as a   
   reference distro.  Being in my 70's, I have become somewhat inflexible.   
   But Mageia still seems to be the most usable distro of them all.   
      
   (The patchy roll-out of the Australian NBN in my city forced me to delay   
   posting this message.  Entire streets have been overlooked, and my   
   connection is intermittent. The Council made representations to the   
   Authority, and was told it is "all too difficult.")   
      
   Doug.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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