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Jacques said:
Yes, the Live CD is way much better than the system itself.
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Nope, you just didn't know how to use it. :p *buntu's .deb got you brainwashed like you were before with MS's .exe. The system is smooth and sleek, way better than *buntu IMO.
 
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redshift_rider said:
i did like PCLOS' smoothness n responsivenes...but that darn synaptic and absense of a proper Add/Remove like in Ubuntu is a letdown for a noob me! i guess ill try a new distro out...
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What do you need it in PCLOS when everything was already preinstalled? Literally in PCLOS I think I only installed Opera and that was a piece of cake in Synaptic, search and mark for install and that's that.

Oh well, to each his own.
 
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vlatko said:
What do you need it in PCLOS when everything was already preinstalled? Literally in PCLOS I think I only installed Opera and that was a piece of cake in Synaptic, search and mark for install and that's that.

Oh well, to each his own.
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well.. yea i guess... but hey.. at least it gives me a reason to try other distros! im still comparitively a n00b! so lemme play the field a lil more before settlin down! :D
 
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vlatko said:
What do you need it in PCLOS when everything was already preinstalled?
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bs patrol on duty. Every desktop distro on 7 cds says this. Everything is preinstalled. Really? Does that mean every application out there was installed or what? If not, if there was one application in the world not installed, then it's entirely possible the user would want it, and thus everything was not preinstalled.

Seriously, I'm so fed up with this myth that "we select all the software you'll ever need and you don't have to bother yourself with any of that". It's such a short sighted fallacy. It's perfect for those stupid "my mother only uses email and the web" "success stories".

The good distros stand out not in what software they ship but in how easy they make it for you to decide what you want to install.
 
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Martin said:
bs patrol on duty. Every desktop distro on 7 cds says this. Everything is preinstalled. Really? Does that mean every application out there was installed or what? If not, if there was one application in the world not installed, then it's entirely possible the user would want it, and thus everything was not preinstalled.

Seriously, I'm so fed up with this myth that "we select all the software you'll ever need and you don't have to bother yourself with any of that". It's such a short sighted fallacy. It's perfect for those stupid "my mother only uses email and the web" "success stories".

The good distros stand out not in what software they ship but in how easy they make it for you to decide what you want to install.
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Said like a loyal Gentoo user
 
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Martin said:
bs patrol on duty. Every desktop distro on 7 cds says this. Everything is preinstalled. Really? Does that mean every application out there was installed or what? If not, if there was one application in the world not installed, then it's entirely possible the user would want it, and thus everything was not preinstalled.

Seriously, I'm so fed up with this myth that "we select all the software you'll ever need and you don't have to bother yourself with any of that". It's such a short sighted fallacy. It's perfect for those stupid "my mother only uses email and the web" "success stories".

The good distros stand out not in what software they ship but in how easy they make it for you to decide what you want to install.
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Easy there tiger. :D

I didn't mean literally everything is preinstalled but I see what you're getting at. But personally PCLOS comes preinstalled with everything I use and require in KDE Linux. Media codecs(probably the most important for me), amarok, Mplayer, K3B, Kopete, Thunderbird, Open Office, also preinstalled Java and Flash. Honestly everything except Opera. The first distro I am using out of the box and IMHO it really does offer the best choice of preinstalled software.

No one can select all the software everyone will need and I agree the most important thing is to make the choice obvious and simple for the end user. But in my case they simply hit a jack-pot.
 
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In which case what you said was completely wrong. Not

"What do you need it in PCLOS when everything was already preinstalled?"

but

"What do *I* need it in PCLOS when everything was already preinstalled?"

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Jacques said:
Said like a loyal Gentoo user
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Well you know that's why I run Gentoo. If there were another distro that had a wider selection and made apps not in the repos easier to install, I'd probably use that. But the nature of software being such, it would probably have to be source-based and Gentoo seems to have filled that market.
 
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Martin said:
In which case what you said was completely wrong. Not

"What do you need it in PCLOS when everything was already preinstalled?"

but

"What do *I* need it in PCLOS when everything was already preinstalled?"

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Well the world doesn't revolve around only me Martin. :p
 
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