Returning to Linux, where to start? Part 1

“Other disappointment was that openoffice was not installed. I
understand that this is a memory hog, however many others have
found a way to install these without going over the magic 700 MB
iso. I did notice in the web browser that there is now a Appstore.
Like many other distros, it seems PCLinux now has a way to gather
applications outside of Synaptic…why? I don’t see the need to go
beyond a solid method of gathering applications. One thing I did
learn in developing applications at MSFT, KISS (keep it simple
stupid). Why have two points of failure that are doing the same
thing?

“So what do you get as options? If you don’t install office,
wouldn’t you think that office would be an option? Nope…just
Opera, google chrome, Dillo, Epiphany…a couple of HTML editors, a
music manager…eh…I just don’t get it. Installing the
applications actually seem to take longer than download and
installing command line. I get the ease, however simply instruct
people how to get all applications. In fact, my favorite was when
Google Chrome didn’t load, and I got this error
message….classic:

“Installation failed! Please install using Synaptic package
manager.”

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