Distro Review: PCLinuxOS 2010 (KDE and Gnome)

Overall impression? "It just works"

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[Ograws]

Is this better than Ubuntu?

[thisweekinlinux]

@Ograws depends on your preference. There are more things driver-wise done for you out of the box, and I've heard a lot of people praise PCLOS's implementation of KDE as being one of the best, but the repositories are a bit smaller than Ubuntu's.

[premamotion]

Thank you so much for your review!

I was a distro hopper for two years, I used Ubuntu, Fedora, Gentoo, etc etc etc... almost all the well-known distros... PCLOS and openSUSE are the best out there for me! PCLOS is fast, reliable, stable, unlike Ubuntu and Ubuntu derivated distros.

[thisweekinlinux]

@premamotion awesome! I've heard quite a few people who are really happy PCLOS users. I really look forward to trying out the 64-bit version when it's available.

[akirafactor]

Guess what distros this is knock-off of.

[kribnotes]

I'm curious if you ran the update through synaptic. I did (because the live version seemed to run great). After the update, it wouldn't reboot.

[PCGamerNET]

@akirafactor Mandrake

[telemetry9]

pc linux gnome looks very smart.

[MrDemilord]

@RangerDK21

???? No RPM? it is a RPM distro based on mandriva...

Small repository? It has 12.000 packages in there..

[MrDemilord]

@akirafactor Mandriva

[HogRider357]

Thanks for this review. Very helpful. I have been looking through Linux Distros for a 3 year old laptop, and this one might be just perfect!

[twiztidsidfreak13]

I really like 2010 gnom! Everything just works from the start. No having to install drivers or flash like unbun.

[shobogatz]

i'm using bleach in Linux Mint and its great :) also running the live cd with enlightment DE form PCLinuxOS and its growing on me :D. when ever i wanna try a distro i always check if you did a review on it :D great work

[gmanprime500]

PClinuxOS is actually independent not based on mandriva

[akirafactor]

@phorneker You have got to be kidding me. Their repo is full of a bunch of stale packages. Want new hardware support, compile a kernel and pull in ALSA yourself. That and every once in while the update of death. Also packages which work fine in other distros, but have bugs in PCLinuxOS.

That and also installed OpenSuse over PCLOS on a 3GHz P4 and the machine was so much faster I couldn't even believe my eyes. CPU load dropped about 30% or more. Load dropped 40% on a thinkpad.

[Exiliadomx]

I have tried many distros. I am new in linux. And my favorite is Linux Mint Debian, but i have to say that PCLinuxOS is the best "out of the box" or ready to use distro. It is better that Ubuntu because Ubuntu looks so ugly just after being installed, you need to installa so many things in Ubuntu after installation. But PCLinuxOs looks so nice and has so many aplication, also the installation process and the grub is better in PCLinuxOS. try it, u wont regret