another new install

G'day. This was a pleasant surprise the other day, to see a new PCLinuxOS based on Debian. I've been fond of Debian for at least 15 years, until the PTB went init-selfdestruct. PCLinuxOS has also been a favourite of mine over the years for its rolling release model, excellent hardware recognition, and smooth and sensible operation.

I'm just making a quick post to outline my experiences with today's install, from the XFCE ISO. Straightforward enough new installer, though I needed a couple of goes to select EXT2 for the root filesystem (very old SSD on my test system). Installed an XFCE desktop like many others, with some of my favourite customisations already in place. Excellent!

A typical and good set of apps. Some new things like Nuclear, quite impressive, and Hypnotix, needs some detailed configuration, and the highly rated Timeshift, needs a closer look.
Mercury would not start, gave the message /usr/bin/mercury-browser: line 69: 16698 Illegal instruction     /usr/lib/mercury/mercury $MERCURY_USER_FLAGS
That's OK, I don't mind Firefox-ESR.
The Printer Installer wasn't helpful, very 20th-century with lots of obsolete printers, nothing for my printer, and nothing for the very popular Airprint class.

Otherwise, looking good! Another class PCLinuxOS act!




Note: for completeness, let me say I've been using MX for the past few years.

antigramp wrote:
Straightforward enough new installer, though I needed a couple of goes to select EXT2 for the root filesystem (very old SSD on my test system).

Hi and welcome, antigramp

Just keep in mind that beginning with kernel v. 6.9, EXT2 won't be supported anymore.

See here: The Journey of Linux’s ext2 Filesystem Comes to an End/

Mercury is a buggy browser.

https://pclosdebian.forumgratuit.ro/t38-mercury-browser-does-not-start

Welcome to the forum!

antigramp wrote:
Mercury would not start, gave the message /usr/bin/mercury-browser: line 69: 16698 Illegal instruction     /usr/lib/mercury/mercury $MERCURY_USER_FLAGS
That's OK, I don't mind Firefox-ESR.
The Printer Installer wasn't helpful, very 20th-century with lots of obsolete printers, nothing for my printer, and nothing for the very popular Airprint class.

The lastest iso of XFCE, Firefox is included by default as Mercury doesn't play well xdg-open with XFCE or some older systems. It would open the Mercury homepage
and not the actual link you give it. The printer installer has an option to use the manufacture's driver if the repo drivers don't work out for you.

Yes thanks, I've heard about the impending demise of ext2. This is just on my test machine, and by the time it matters, I will have figured out how to turn off the journal of ext4 (which is a far better filesystem overall).

My printer doesn't use "a" driver, it has a shell-script installer which supplies a number of moving parts     and it's 32-bit, looking at you Brother...