Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 18th Mar 2002 18:07 UTC
Many companies tried to create a truly easy-to-use Linux distribution, but as they say in Greece "they reached the well, but weren't able to drink water". Corel, Mandrake, Lindows, Xandros, Stormix and many other distros tried or are still trying to bring Linux closer to Windows' ease of use and the millions of the desktop-oriented users. One of the new distributions that has many people impressed so far, is Lycoris (formerly known as 'Redmond Linux'). OSNews tested the latest Lycoris Desktop/LX and here is what we experienced.
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>http://www.mosfet.org/liquid.html
While I admire Mosfet's efforts, this thing looks like crap. Overloaded, lots of unessesary transparencies, horrible tabs and buttons etc. These screenshots look like a travesti full of make up and "look at me" widgets. Not all of it is Mosfet's fault though. KDE developers are far from creating nice and logical UIs for their apps, while the bad widget spacing and griding is QT's fault.
The only thing I like about it is the bold font on the Kemu with its icons on the left being on the right 16x16 size.
Overall, not a real alternative to MacOSX UI or even XP's. It is not just Mosfet who has to fix things. KDE devs and TrollTech needs to fix things to have a nice UI. And the problem is that all of these people are working independandly, therefore there is no consisestency.