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I am using an Acer Aspire 4732z from 2009 with 1GB RAM and I can't install KDE into my 64GB sd card, which I wanted to make a portable OS. LXDE works fine but I don't like the blue corners of the UI. This distro kinda gives me a headache to install and is not recommended for those who wanted to move from windows to linux. There's even a graphical glitch in the KDE version of Porteus.
I'll wait for another year to reinstall this OS back. Hope they'll improve it someday even more.
(He gave 4 out of 10 and calls Porteus "great", Le Sigh ¹¹ )
I wonder, why is that person not making a free (as in speech and beer) account on the forum and gives us the details so that we can approve.
Many laptops use self-brewed hardware and the company gives SM-Windowser all the info they need, and Linux has to figure out all by ourselves.
It is noit the fault from Linux when a hardware resource claims it can "manage XY at a spd of 80 Whatver" when it only manages that resource at 40 at best. Windows ahem I meant SM-Windowser knows about that and addresses that hardware part as if it only can be bothered with a speed of 40, even when the resource itself claims it can handle double the speed.
This has been like so for ages, and it seems many SM-Windowser user willing to use Linux on older hardware still have not got the memo.
People, we ned detailed bug reports to improve Porteus.