Porteus 5 review

[fulalas]

I finally wrote a Porteus review. Any feedback is welcome

https://medium.com/@fulalas/porteus-5-r ... df8789a758

[Karmi]

I finally wrote a Porteus review. Any feedback is welcome

https://medium.com/@fulalas/porteus-5-r ... df8789a758

Excellent review! Quite professional looking also...

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!

[Ed_P]

Excellent review! Quite professional looking also...

I agree.

Perhaps a link earlier in the review, to the Porteus Forum, for potential new users?

I agree. It would be handy and is one of Porteus' strongest points for new users.

[Blaze]

Hi fulalas.
A new hidden talents. Excellent review.

[fulalas]

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.

[Rapha_]

Very good work !





i use also: Alt + wheel of the mouse, to zoom

[Testuser]

Hi fulalas,

Excellent !!!

[Rava]

I finally wrote a Porteus review. Any feedback is welcome

https://medium.com/@fulalas/porteus-5-r ... df8789a758

1) "Website needs to be updated" (Why do so many Porteus Forum members bash the Porteus website, AKA Home – wink).

I agree with Karmi on that.

While I like most of the review, I disagree on some minor parts.
Like this one:

Mpv and Celluloid video players may look redundant, but Celluloid is actually an improved graphic shell that runs on top of Mpv.

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.
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

Not that it makes the module much smaller, but removing an application one really really dislikes entirely is something very… satisfying calming. )

[fulalas]

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

[Testuser]

I also never liked celluloid.

Not that it makes the module much smaller, but removing an application one really really dislikes entirely is something very… satisfying calming. )

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?

[Rava]

I tried ROOT=/path/to/extracted/002-xtra_sans_celluloid/ removepkg celluloid, but modules does not got smaller and only less files were removed

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.

[nanZor]

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!