Mageia 4 and Korora 20

For short, both are rough, but might become something nice.

Had a friend talk about Korora and looked it up on DistroWatch to find out that it was built off of Fedora, and I almost disregarded it until another of my friends say that it wasn't as evil as Fedora (specifically having to sudo while already using "su"). While I was at DistroWatch, I saw that Mageia 4 was out and I was wanting to test it.

I did a bit of testing the live version of Mageia on the Dell, but didn't feel like actually doing a whole lot, and Korora ended up erroring out and looping at it, so I had to give that up.

I tested both earlier with a spare drive and Triela.

Installed Mageia first, and everything works well, but repository is limited and doesn't include VLC. Network was managed by Mageia's control center (kinda like Yast) instead of Network Manager, which was a tad annoying, but at the least, it let me specify static IP before it connected to it.

Korora was interesting, but seemed slow to load (even after installing it). The default GNOME extensions make it look like it would be good for a tablet or convertible laptop/tablet (there's a "Places" file menu thing next to the Activities to open the file browser, and then a "weather" thing next to the clock). VLC is installed by default and the hot keys work on the video window. The problem I had was that the package manager gets stuck when trying to update... I selected all the packages, then clicked apply, then it tells me that YUM is locked by packagekit and it stays like that; I looked in system monitor and it's not even open (even tried killing it in terminal, and it says it's not found). I tried again and it did the same thing, so I just gave up after that.

I'll eventually test some later versions of these, but as it is now, they're both not something I'd want to use.