Its almost an year that I had my first date with PCLinuxOS. I was pretty comfortable with it from day 1. It came well bundled with a host of applications, both Geeky and non-Geeky.

But what steals the show is Synaptic, the package manager. For those who had miserable time on Fedora unwrapping RPMs from the command line spending sleepless nights wondering about the missing libraries ( missing dependencies, thats what you call them..right? ) PCLOS comes as a dose of relief. I agree these days all distros come with a package manager but man what I mean here is THE THING REALLY INSTALLS IT!!!. There are ample applications already in the distro and I promise you need not install anything extra for at least the first 4-5 weeks of usage.

The Internet, I must mention, is the most important or rather most indispensable part of the experience. And make sure you connect to it well. I don't think the Package manager would have made much sense had I not had Internet. I have an ISP that uses a private proxy ( which is also the DNS ....named 172.16.1.1 ) connected to a public proxy. So all I had to do was to install a client for my machine that provides an authenticated connection to 172.16.1.1. I managed to get a client software after long and successfully connected to the Internet. I dont think it was a piece of cake but PCLOS makes it sure that you are just 2 clicks away from all sort of network settings. If you are using PCLOS and unable connect to internet, feel free to share

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