vbetts Posted December 19, 2013 Share Posted December 19, 2013 Grub 2 still is having issues with UEFI unfortunately... Other than that, I think major distros need to go to Grub 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted October 6, 2014 Author Share Posted October 6, 2014 Eventually Grub 2 has been made available, but only in principle. For some crazy reason it is not on the DVD, it must be downloaded!!! As if Grub were non free software, or as if they said: "do it at your own risk". Trouble is, for the life of me I can't configure any internet connection on my PC, neither ethernet nor Wi-Fi (I use a D-link DWA-125). This while Mint automagically configures everything. So I still have no use for PCLinuxOS, sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted January 6, 2015 Author Share Posted January 6, 2015 Finally! "Future releases will default to grub2" What took them so long? http://www.pclinuxos.com/happy-holidays-from-pclinuxos/ In the meantime they lost plenty of customers, if DistroWatch Page Hit Ranking is anything to go by. Certainly they lost me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tle88 Posted January 10, 2015 Share Posted January 10, 2015 Alessandro17, have You try KaOS 2014-12 ? It have modern qt and kde, it is all 64 -bit, and it is full rolling. I feel it myself quite satisfying, mostly because it have translated Calligra Suite wholeness with it and they have even translated closed (=working) nvidia driver already in kernel. You need only something like kMail and digiKam with it, and You have full working system. 2014-12 version is much more ready, than any 2015 qt5 and kde plasma version. Of course KaOS is not Yosemite, but this is acceptable escape route, if Apple replace intel with arm processor. (I have bad sense of that) T -.- KaOS should have grub 2 somewhere in their distribution tree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted January 11, 2015 Author Share Posted January 11, 2015 Thanks tle88 but when I do use Linux (on rare occasions) I use Linux Mint. It is simply great, it auto-magically configures everything. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 Linux Mint version LTS is great! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
necrophagous Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 Anything other than *buntu is great Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 Ubuntu is good, but the only thing that is disruptive is the Unity interface. Perhaps with the new Mir interface that can improve... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted January 13, 2015 Author Share Posted January 13, 2015 Anything other than *buntu is great I tend to agree. But OTOH Mint (the main version) is Ubuntu based. Mint has been called "Ubuntu done right". There is also a Debian version of Mint, but it is not quite as popular. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mendietinha Posted January 14, 2015 Share Posted January 14, 2015 mint is light and very good indeed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
necrophagous Posted January 14, 2015 Share Posted January 14, 2015 Ubuntu is good, but the only thing that is disruptive is the Unity interface. Perhaps with the new Mir interface that can improve... I fully agreed that Unity is disruptive , and counter-intuitive And no, i don't think that will change when Mir arrive The main problem with recent ubuntu development is they try to reinvent the wheel and doing a poor job at it ( upstart, unity, Mir, etc) thus isolating them from the rest of the linux community ( making bug fixing, patches, etc a lot harder) @alessandro17 Without any disrespect to ubuntu developers, i think linux mint maintainers did good job in making ubuntu a lot more stable. After all, i got a lot more breakages in ubuntu than debian sid Just my opinion and personal experience though 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted January 24, 2015 Author Share Posted January 24, 2015 @alessandro17 Without any disrespect to ubuntu developers, i think linux mint maintainers did good job in making ubuntu a lot more stable. After all, i got a lot more breakages in ubuntu than debian sid Just my opinion and personal experience though We were told that Ubuntu was based on a Debian Sid snapshot (at least in the past, now it is unclear). That is a stupid thing to do. Debian Sid is, by definition, unstable. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
necrophagous Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 ^ e-{censored}in-zactly (excuse the language, can't help it ) . I still remember those good ol' days when Ubuntu was still at its infancy ( hence still great ). Suffice to say, i will never put my faith in Canonical for my production box anymore. anyway, enough about *buntu. Back to pclinuxos, i like their semi rolling-rolling release cycle. I like their non-pretentious way of not claiming their distro to be stable (hence, users will be prepared). I also like their commitment towards package signing and security which is a lot better than another distro where all the 'kool kids' like to use ( cough... Arch ...cough) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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