Evan wrote:BrokenMan has done a great job with Porteus of finding the right balance between stripping down the size and still being functional
Precisely! It's made to be used as a serious daily system but without this useless bloatware philosophy, like Ubuntu-like distros. I really can't understand a distro with more than 600 mb (Ubuntu is now 1.5 gb!) that comes with as many apps as Porteus.
Evan wrote:One of the biggest annoyances with puppylinux apart from the silly themes was finding out when things didn't work correctly it was because some standard function had been removed.
One of the most frustrating things is when you click on something and nothing happens or it throws a random error. I found Puppy very messy and unpolished. Indeed, most Linux distros are very unpolished. Also, most of the time websites and journalists make a terrible service when writing about them, which doesn't help new users. Take a look at
this Porteus review for example, where the guy couldn't even understand the whole point of modules:
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The strangest part of Porteus, however, has to be the way it handles software installs. Like most Linux distros, it uses a package manager to download and install applications, but you then have the option of compressing all the download files into a Porteus “module”. If you then want this application to be available when you reboot, you need to copy the module into the /porteus/modules directory on your USB stick.
And this
other one:
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The QMMP wikipedia page says that QMMP has an intuitive easy to use interface. Really? I'm quite an intelligent guy but I can't find one single menu option that allows you to choose how to open a track or import music.
Qmmp is a Winamp-like audio player. If you don't have this culture (it seems the 90's is now retro), you need to just observe the interface since all buttons are made using the same old pattern of all other audio players...
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The default video player is SMPlayer which is ok and works well enough for playing videos.
SMPlayer isn't a video player. It's a front-end for actual players, like Mpv and MPlayer, and these players depend totally on FFMpeg libs.
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I navigated to the folder where the tarballs were downloaded [from USM] and upon right clicking them there is an option to install them. (Which I guess means extract them).
Porteus works with modules, so you need to read a little bit more before using it and, especially, before writing about it.
Besides that, I think Porteus comes fully working out of the box. The only thing new users probably miss is a default browser. The old website tool that built custom ISOs was a must!
But, hey, we're now kind of curious waiting for Porteus 4, right?
