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For what it's worth, when my aged 2nd hand Dell something-or-other blew up, I dug an even more aged Dell Dimension 2350 (Celeron 2GHz) out of the attic and the only distro I could get to run sensibly on it was (is) PCLinuxOS LXDE. Ubuntu and Mandriva seized so frequently they were unusable. With PCLinuxOS LXDE my sound card is a bit erratic and the file manager PCMan has a known bug but the support guys rally round in no time at all to help and advise. I was running PCLinuxOS with KDE happily on the defunct machine and I'll stick with them in future.
Simon Sanders
On May 26 2010, Neil Winchurst wrote:
Thanks to VBox I have been trying out Lucid Ubuntu, and thanks to John
Williams for passing me a CD at the last Holsworthy meeting.
I have had a good look at it and one thing is certain, I will not be
installing it. Possibly it is because I don't like Gnome. Or perhaps I
have waited too long since the last time I changed. I am currently using
Hardy Kubuntu.
I have had a look at the latest version of PCLinuxOS and I am waiting
for the KDE or Xfce version of Mint 9 as a comparison. Then I will
choose one of those.
The great number of distros of Linux is both a strength and a weakness.
For newbies I suspect it can be confusing and worrying. Which to try
out? For me it is great. There is a distro available to suit just about
anybody.
Next meeting at Holsworthy 19th June by the way,
Neil
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