Linked by Robert Trembath on Sat 30th Aug 2003 11:41 UTC
As a system administrator, I have used Windows on the desktop since 2.0 and used to run Windows XP at home for my family. I use Linux and Windows servers at work and prefer (Red Hat) Linux for its security, stability and usefulness in a company with a diminishing IT budget. More than a year ago I started experimenting with Linux as a desktop solution and after installing and using more than 7 different distros along with many various versions of those distros, I found a distro that is doing everything its suppose to do, right out of the box. I'm talking about the pleasantly suprising Lindows 4.0.
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Lindows?!! But he's running as ROOT!!! blah blah blah
I tried Lindows 4.0 for fun (I'm a SuSE user) and I found it amazing as far as hardware goes. It took 10 minutes to install and it configured my WiFi automatically and I was surfing the web in no time.
You _have_ to understand that Lindows is NOT designed for those looking for "freedom" and "power", it's designed for those who don't give a damn about computers other than say email, browsing the web, printing some docs, chatting on MSN with friends, lisening to MP3 and getting some pics from your digital camera.
Users don't know and don't care if it's KDE or Gnome (Lindows chose KDE for obvious reasons) and they don't want to do any installation that is not as easy or easier than windows (and lindows click'n'run is the easiest installation process I have seen on ANY platform). Therefore Lindows target audiance probably doesn't include those who have 3 instances of emacs running while debugging some unknown up in gcc.
I have installed Lindows on my GF computers and she loves it! I can't install Lindows on my computer because it's just not designed for power users (no development tools whatso ever, unless you spend two hours downloading them all). And click'n'run is not bleeding edge, so it doesn't suit me, but my GF doesn't care if she's using KDE 3.05 or KDE 3.1.90 from CVS HEAD.
Just my 2 euros