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Offline deathromantik

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After a 2 year absence, I am back using PCLOS.
« on: February 17, 2013, 08:47:08 AM »
Man am I happy to be using PCLOS again.
I tried Fedora for a while, I am not sure what their packagers are doing but they have had problems with their JACK package for years and it still isn't fixed. If something is broken they don't seem to care.

I was required to buy an Apple Mac Book Pro for my audio production degree. In the two years I have had it it has been in the shop 7 times; I am still waiting for it to come back. OS X is interesting; on one hand I learned more about UNIX type OS's but then I encountered the stupidity of some elements of it's design. For one Finder is not able to pause a file transfer either local or over a network, slow to update java, It is RAM hungry(4 GB and it is slow and freezes up with spinning beachball of doom) it is incompatible with many UNIX softwares, MacPorts is a nightmare. Worst of all is for every new thing they fixed on a Lion update it broke many other things, WIFI is unreliable, it changes massively between very minor version releases that also breaks compatibility with software which for a work computer is unacceptable plus because of the non standard UEFI I could not install Linux unless in virtual box.
They also seem to hate the user customising the look of OS X.
Really after using a mac, Microsoft Windows 7 does not look that bad!

So here I am with PCLOS KDE 64bit RC1. I like it, it has some bugs and needs some packages (I'd learn to package if I had the time!) but I can see it being a damn nice OS when it is finished. Good work guys!
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Re: After a 2 year absence, I am back using PCLOS.
« Reply #1 on: February 17, 2013, 08:57:08 AM »
Good for you that you found your way back, deathromantik!

When packages are reported as broken, a note in the appropriate section is usually picked up very quickly and the problem is solved in a jiffy, thanks to our very dedicated team of packagers.

I'm sure you'll get accustomed to PCLOS again in a short time, so enjoy what I still consider to be the best distro and community  :D

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Re: After a 2 year absence, I am back using PCLOS.
« Reply #2 on: February 18, 2013, 12:03:26 AM »
Welcome back deathromantik.

I remember you from your unique name!  ;D   
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Re: After a 2 year absence, I am back using PCLOS.
« Reply #3 on: February 18, 2013, 12:44:24 AM »
Quote from: Rudge on February 18, 2013, 12:03:26 AM
Welcome back deathromantik.

I remember you from your unique name!  ;D   

I remember you also.

It's the kind of handle you do tend to remember.

Yeh, I have only ever downloaded src and compiled. I would not know the first thing about packaging. I've glanced articles in the past but have found they are out of date whenever I put them to practical use unfortunately. And the things I wanted have been so out there that I doubt anyone would want.

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