by yankee495 » Jun 26th, '14, 04:15
Same thing I say, the power of MCC doesn't exist in any distro I've seen. A friend ask me about Mint and I told him though I hadn't installed it (in a VM), I did't think it had anything like MCC. I had told him I downloaded it to play with. My neighbor lady ask me to build her a computer and put Mageia on it. I've been telling her about Linux sine way back. From Mandrake on up to Mageia, for years.
Lately I'd been telling her how good it is getting and just about anyone could use it, not like the old days of driver problems and newer stuff not working. Wouldn't ya know it, she has a Kodak camera I can't get working, Dok is trying to help me out. Anyway, when I installed Mageia I showed her System Settings and told her that is mostly for KDE and how it looks and acts, like mouse settings etc.
I told her it had sort of like two control panels (like Windows control panel). Then I told her MCC is where the system tools are, tools that can break your system like deleting a partition etc. I showed her installing and uninstalling, hardware tools and info and told her to look around but exit without applying and she would be ok.
She's pretty much got it. She said she wouldn't be fooling around with it much as long as it worked but she'd like to poke around adding software etc. I told her to google what she wants to do. like to google music player or spread sheet program for Linux etc. I did show her LibreOffice and music/video players but she got the idea. Her biggest problem is just not knowing the names of the programs to do what she wants, but she is doing great.
At the end I told her other distros don't have MCC but all KDE's have System Settings. She thought it was pretty cool and I told her all the way back to Mandriva the reviewers loved MCC. To this day I don't know why no one has tried to duplicate it. I know you can make a folder with shortcuts to all of the tools, or an icon containment or something on any system.
Still no one tries to consolidate the tools to be within easy reach like when you first install a system and want to configure the fonts, mouse, colors etc. I know those are in system settings but generally on a fresh install you want to do all of that, check things out, install software (or remove) and a lot of things. When I first install I start hating the password and use 12 to make it simple because I am constantly changing things.
I love Mageia and don't know what I'd do without it. When I seen Mandriva 2011 with ROSA stuff I about had a heart attack. I could remove/hide stuff, but what a relief to find Mageia, more like the old mandrake than Mandriva. I'm sure people love their distros as much as I do, it's a Linux user trait, but I'd sure hate to have to learn to love another.