I too like the os but 100% of your complaints regarding other packages are to me the complaints of someone who is a bit behind the curve and has a bit of an objection to learning. We all do but....... I have used allmost all of the packages you list as problematic. I do not see this. Example your complaing regarding the button off the bottom of the screen. Wow now that's a really easy one and certianly not enough to dump a valid, robust OS. Sorry if I offended as it was/is not my intention. I have had my problems but I tend to work them out. I'm not usually an instant gretification person. The best of the best usually require a little work. Example. This machine is an ASUS Eee nettop. It has an 11' screen. I upgraded it from a 160Gb drive to a 400Gb drive and from a 1Gb RAM to a 2Gb RAM. That was a bit of work but not so much. T ook about 30 minutes. I used CentOS 5.5 on it for a while but was not satisfied as it is really a server package and lacked the desktop stuff I found I need. Example: I had a bit of a hard time getting BitTorrent to work. I did get it to work but video and other desktop stuff didn't work. I tried Ubuntu. Nope I just don't like it. Not to belabor it, I just don't like it. Gento is a little intense for my use on a laptop. I finally have settled on Fedora 16 for now. So far I'm happy with it. I installed it over the Internet with a boot netinstall USB. I carry in my bag a few bootable USB packates including Fedora 16. JUST IN CASE. My hard drive is encrypted with LUKS and I use a bit of other security on the little Eee. I use it with maps and GPS, I hunt wireless systems with Kismet etc. With Kismet it is quite easy to break into most WEP security. Nope I don't like that. It's a nasty feeling to steal so I use Kismet to find unlocked systems. At least I'm not intentionaly breaking into it so no strong guild feelings about it. Have fun. Again I apologize if I offended. CrakerKiller in Texas

I've been using PCLinuxOS 2010 since awhile and base on what i can do with it it's the one that i'm going to use forever. I've been trying other distro without success, i also like the fact that it is well maintain, the people in the forum are friendly and overall it's a beautiful distro with lots of choises like KDE, Gnome, minime, LXDE and others.

I all but gave up on Linux back in 2007. Along the way, someone had been suggesting I should try PCLinuxOS (aka PCLOS), and when I finally tried the MiniMe 2008 release, it pleased me at every turn. Still using PCLOS as a result of the ongoing experience I'm having. I have installed, maintained and ultimately had to give up on many other distributions since 1999 (ArchLinux 0.4, abandoned for erasing a hard disk due to an untested portion of installation code; Slackware 8 to 10, left that for not providing any forum support (persistent X issues and more); I left Ubuntu 64 bit releases because they initially the did not support a Celeron D 64 bit processor (despite claiming full Intel support), and again I leave after a new Ubuntu 64 bit release (where Celeron D was supported) because the default graphics setting was 640x480 and I couldn't apply resolution changes because the 'apply' button was well below the bottom of the screen... other distros were tossed aside for so many networking issues (not necessarily the fault of 'Linux', but several indicated tutorials were DEAD WRONG because they were not kept up to date after major kernel changes made the tutorial obsolete)... I could go on with stories about Red Hat, Fedora, Mandrake/Mandriva, Debian, Knoppix, DSL, Linux-BBC and others, but my point here is that I've tried others for extended periods, only PCLOS has the honor of being installed on my system the longest.