Surprisingly competent

[waerola1]

I had a slow week doing some home painting.  Between coats, I tried out some new releases.
Opensuse 11.4 worked well until the wireless network manager started requiring a command line invocation every time I booted.  I read a lot of comments about knetworkmanager being "just broken" for the release.

Fedora 14 was okay, but required a LOT of work to get to a usable condition for watching Youtube or any of the normal browsing activities.  The orthodoxy just wore me down especially when I had reinstall Java to fix the fonts on my financial software, Moneydance.

I wanted to use a 64-bit application because it seemed more modern.  But there are a lot of conflicts or complications.  This bfs kernel seems to work fine.

So I finally downloaded the PCLOS FullMonty.  It looked good, but as soon as I downloaded all the upgrades -- it broke.  But it broke in a GOOD way.  I deleted my ~.kde4/ folder and behold, I had a nice clean black screen and a panel to which I could add all the minimalist widgets I wanted.  And I had a HUGE selection of software to play with. 

Surprisingly competent.

[pinoc]

Hi waerola1,
FullMonty installation and maintenance is discussed here and in the first sentence there is a link to update instructions. Or you can simply create a new user-account.
regards,
-p.