PCLinuxOS

Reader supplied reviews for PCLinuxOS Average rating 8.2 from 99 review(s) Please specify which version of the distribtion you are reviewing. Please selecting a rating in the range of 1-10. Please write at least a few sentences about the distribution while limiting your review to 4080 characters. What are your thoughts on PCLinuxOS? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- apt2023.072022.122021.112020.10152019.122018.062017.112016.032014.122013.102012.082011.092010.122010.072010.12009.22009.120070.920.91 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Your review (minimum 250 words): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: 2023.07 Rating: 4 Date: 2023-10-31 Votes: 0 I really wanted to try a systemd-free rolling distro with KDE Plasma. I installed PCLInuxOS without major problems, but what a job getting it set up afterwards. The biggest problem so far has been trying to get the language and locale set up. It seems to be english, or else. Luckily I use english as my native language, but I live in Germany and I want numbers, dates, currency, paper sizes and so on to use the local defaults. Unfortunately the regional settings page has the settings grayed out. This is the only KDE installation I have used that does not allow changing these settings out of the box. I went through a procedure that I found on the forum, but it left me with a german-language terminal, plus some other german language artifacts that have no business on an english desktop. In 2023. There are so many application launcher entries that I had to scroll to view them all using Application Dashboard. There is an entry for "All Applications", but also an entry for "More Applications". No "Multimedia", but "Sound" and "Video". This is the only KDE distro that I have used that has such weird categories. I did change these in the short time that I used the distro. The default fonts are really too large. This can be changed of course, but then some applications do not accept the change. Synaptic maintained its large fonts no matter what I did. There are way too many notifications with sound enabled by default for my taste. I have not used another KDE distro with so many sounds enabled. All of these issues can be solved, I thought. But then I tried to register for the forum. Good luck with that! I sent two e-mails to the account listed, but after 6 weeks I gave up and went for a different distro. I probably would have been banned from the forum anyway, because one must not refer to other distros as I have done here. Overall impression? "The Boomer Distribution", with a "Biscuits and Gravy" magazine. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 2023.07 Rating: 10 Date: 2023-10-10 Votes: 25 PCLinuxOS is quite remarkable because while being a rolling-release GNU/Linux distribution, what means that it is very much updated, it is extremely stable, reliable and fast. It can be used in some not so new hardware with success, too. I have revived some old (64 bits capable, single or double core) machines with it. Also, it is simple to use, intuitive. Its repository is complete and the community helpful. You can chose to keep or update the kernel periodically, what it is good for stability and compatibility in your working environment. Also, for some of us, not having systemD is a very good thing (being a simpler, more solid and much reliable system). I've been using it at home and at college for more than ten years and surely recommend it to anyone. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 2023.07 Rating: 9 Date: 2023-09-25 Votes: 10 I am a confessed distro hopper, usually using several a year; only Mandrake, Vector, Spiral and MX Linux lasting a longer time. PCLinuxOS might end being a keeper. It is very old school in that it is reliable with the basics such as startup, shutdown, suspend and resume being rock solid. No issues with detecting a networked printer or autoconfiguring the network. My computer is an ASUS A8 with 16 MB of ram. Btop reports only 2.39 Gib being used as I write this. While the XFCE edition does lack a GUI option such as Discover for Flatpaks, it is supported via the command line. Synaptic or the terminal using Apt works fine. Updates have been seamless. My wish would be that the Bauh package manager would be added to the repository for management of Flatpak and the regular repository as a one tool option. The default included software are astute choices. My personal favourites were all in the repository, which while not huge has most needs covered without having to Flatpak install a lot. Using the terminal as superuser requires SU, not sudo, which is old school cool. Not much hand holding here with many man and info pages non-existent. Curious as that should be an easy fix, but the internet is your friend for help. If your car is a Honda Accord, Toyota Corolla or you see value in AWD. If you can see the beauty in that plain girl everyone else is ignoring. Then, my friend, this may be the sleeper distro for you. For those younger readers, I mean sleeper as not yawn, but as that ugly car has a hot engine. PCLinuxOS is like that plain girl, after trying it, a real keeper that you rely on for the long haul. Cheers, Jefe P.S Please change girl to whatever gender you prefer. Likewise, I mean no bias either to Chevy lovers. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 99 reader reviews of PCLinuxOS...