Years and years
Posted: 20 May 2018, 23:04
where on earth do i start with this Gem of an operating system?
For many years ive been reasonably happy plodding along with various versions of windows since 3.1. The need for something else didn't really occur to me until i battled many hours in an attempt to install windows Vista god knows when. this seemed to be the point in time where the bloatware that is windows began getting progressively worse, demanding more and more resources just to simply run. The solution was various attempts at running linux with different desktop environments all with the same result.... one way or another i would end up breaking the whole install by doing something i thought would be a simple task!
Fast forward to now, my aging (2012-13) laptop has, of course, decided that windows 10 is just not something its into... and its not hard to see why. Its not really that Windows 10 is slow, its just become such a workload for my laptop to boot it up. everytime i want to use the damn thing windows update decides it wants all the cpu to itself, fine so i have to wait half an hour, an hour sometimes before its really usable again.
I found the Porteus website and decided id give linux one last try... in USB form.
The difference in my aged, decrepit, barely functional laptop was just night and day. The sheer speed of this thing i haven't seen in a long time. So of course i then did the very thing that put me off linux to start with... i messed about trying to install stuff (in modules this time as Porteus does things) and then broke it... but unlike every other distro ive ever used, Porteus simply can't die this way, simply booting "always fresh" then deleting the module brings everything back the way it was. FINALLY, after years and years of hopeless linux distros ive finally found one that is reliable, portable and seriously fast. This is the way it should have always been. Well done to all the Devs of Porteus. Thank you for producing this amazing operating system.
For many years ive been reasonably happy plodding along with various versions of windows since 3.1. The need for something else didn't really occur to me until i battled many hours in an attempt to install windows Vista god knows when. this seemed to be the point in time where the bloatware that is windows began getting progressively worse, demanding more and more resources just to simply run. The solution was various attempts at running linux with different desktop environments all with the same result.... one way or another i would end up breaking the whole install by doing something i thought would be a simple task!
Fast forward to now, my aging (2012-13) laptop has, of course, decided that windows 10 is just not something its into... and its not hard to see why. Its not really that Windows 10 is slow, its just become such a workload for my laptop to boot it up. everytime i want to use the damn thing windows update decides it wants all the cpu to itself, fine so i have to wait half an hour, an hour sometimes before its really usable again.
I found the Porteus website and decided id give linux one last try... in USB form.
The difference in my aged, decrepit, barely functional laptop was just night and day. The sheer speed of this thing i haven't seen in a long time. So of course i then did the very thing that put me off linux to start with... i messed about trying to install stuff (in modules this time as Porteus does things) and then broke it... but unlike every other distro ive ever used, Porteus simply can't die this way, simply booting "always fresh" then deleting the module brings everything back the way it was. FINALLY, after years and years of hopeless linux distros ive finally found one that is reliable, portable and seriously fast. This is the way it should have always been. Well done to all the Devs of Porteus. Thank you for producing this amazing operating system.