Porteus 5 review
Porteus 5 review
I finally wrote a Porteus review. Any feedback is welcome
https://medium.com/@fulalas/porteus-5-r ... df8789a758
https://medium.com/@fulalas/porteus-5-r ... df8789a758
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Excellent review! Quite professional looking also...fulalas wrote: ↑29 Nov 2022, 19:17I finally wrote a Porteus review. Any feedback is welcome
https://medium.com/@fulalas/porteus-5-r ... df8789a758
Brief Feedback:
1) "Website needs to be updated" (Why do so many Porteus Forum members bash the Porteus website, AKA Home – wink).
2) As a fairly new user of Porteus, loved the location 'n info included early in the "Running live" section.
3) Perhaps a link earlier in the review, to the Porteus Forum, for potential new users?
4) Lots of technical stuff, but most offered in a way that a non-tech like me could still follow wid out my eyes rolling back in my head.
5) Handy info thru out 'n most offered in a way that kept pulling in my attention.
6) Size does matter when it comes to Linux ISOs. Have been testing the group of OSes that sought to replace CentOS 8, since right after the news about it being discontinued came out, and one of them was over 10GBs when I went to check it recently!? Sorry, the 8-9 GBs Distros were already big, but 10 GBs was finally the breaking point for me. My Porteus 5 Cinnamon comes in @ just 359 MBs...
7) Included all DEs wid a nice review of each...a little more time spent on my Cinnamon DE would've been better tho, IMHO.
Yes, excellent review, right up to 'n including the ending wid "basic users" to "heavy users" mentioned, also bringing in the "tech press" was a nice touch, and ending it all wid 'Da machine!
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I agree.
I agree. It would be handy and is one of Porteus' strongest points for new users.
Ed
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Hi fulalas.
A new hidden talents. Excellent review.
A new hidden talents. Excellent review.
Linux 6.6.11-porteus #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sun Jan 14 12:07:37 MSK 2024 x86_64 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1270 v6 @ 3.80GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
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Porteus 5 review
Thanks a lot for the feedback, guys!
@Karmi, regarding Cinnamon, I have to admit it doesn't excite me, but I'm gonna try it for a week or so.
@Karmi, regarding Cinnamon, I have to admit it doesn't excite me, but I'm gonna try it for a week or so.
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Very good work !
i use also: Alt + wheel of the mouse, to zoom
i use also: Alt + wheel of the mouse, to zoom
Porteus 5 review
Hi fulalas,
Excellent !!!
Excellent !!!
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fulalas wrote: ↑29 Nov 2022, 19:17I finally wrote a Porteus review. Any feedback is welcome
https://medium.com/@fulalas/porteus-5-r ... df8789a758
I agree with Karmi on that.
While I like most of the review, I disagree on some minor parts.
Like this one:
Celluloid being an improved graphic shell? In my book, while celluloid might look improved, its performance compared to mpv itself is abysmal slow. It is the one standard software in all of Porteus I dislike the most. I not used to use it some times ago, but when donald pointed its abysmal performance out to me, I tested it on my dated hardware, and I was appalled.Mpv and Celluloid video players may look redundant, but Celluloid is actually an improved graphic shell that runs on top of Mpv.
When asked, I would even recommend the user to patch her/his 002-xtra.xzm to make a 002-xtra_sans_celluloid.xzm out of that.
(And the user learns about the ROOT= hack in combination with removepkg, e.g.
Code: Select all
ROOT=/path/to/extracted/002-xtra_sans_celluloid/ removepkg celluloid
Cheers!
Yours Rava
Yours Rava
Porteus 5 review
Thansk for feedback, Rava. I'm not a big fan of cellulloid -- I actually don't use it. But for the average user I understand it can be simpler to use than mpv, since initially mpv doesn't even seem to have OSD until you move the cursor
Porteus 5 review
I also never liked celluloid.
Also, can we make vlc player as default in Porteus becoz, when I tested vlc uses less resources compared to mpv for same video file.
Has anyone tested which video player uses least CPU?
I tried ROOT=/path/to/extracted/002-xtra_sans_celluloid/ removepkg celluloid, but modules does not got smaller and only less files were removed
Also, can we make vlc player as default in Porteus becoz, when I tested vlc uses less resources compared to mpv for same video file.
Has anyone tested which video player uses least CPU?
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The above line is just one part of a multi-step-process.
EDIT
I removed the rest of my post because it's off topic and created a new thread for it all:
[HOWTO] ROOT=/path/ removepkg package
When replaying about the review of fulalas, please do so here.
When replying about 002-xtra_sans_celluloid or about [HOWTO] ROOT=/path/ removepkg package please do so in the new thread.
Cheers!
Yours Rava
Yours Rava
Porteus 5 review
That's a GREAT review! I learned a few new things from it, and explains the reason why Porteus is fast like a sports car. Bookmarked!
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