Star Lycoris Desktop/LX Review
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 18th Mar 2002 18:07 UTC
Mandriva, Mandrake, Lycoris 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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If you want ease of use, get an Amiga. The designers didn't call the shared library that runs
the GUI system "Intuition" for nothing.
I've been playing with Linux for awhile & I must say that the folks at KDE & GNOME are placing
some of Windows 95 & 98 quirkiness into their systems. I hate having to click more than once
to perform a task. Also, who thought it was so smart to add file renaming as a mouse click to
their file managers? If you mistakenly click too fast, you overshoot the file renaming & the GUI
does whatever it's set for with a double-click (Aaarrgghh!!). So why did this Windoze feature (bug?) end up in Linux? If I want to rename a file on my Amiga, I just select a menu item or
press the equivalent menu key, no having to take care of how my mouse gets clicked. This
is only one example of Linux going the wrong direction (i.e., incorporating Windows Look & feel into their GUIs). Stick with X-windows look & feel (or Solaris).
Play with an Amiga & see how simple & easy to use a GUI should be.
Unfortunately, I'm getting the impression that Amiga Inc. is trying to add Windows garbage to
their latest versions of the Amiga OS (They've already started by eating up screen real estate with a TaskBar in OS3.9 -- but at least it can ge turned off). Come on folks, just because Microsoft does it does NOT mean that you have to!