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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There is one thing I believe Lindows does very well, and that's Click and Run. You pick an application and it is installed automatically.
Altough APT(itude) and FreeBSD (sysinstall) provide a nice menu for selecting packages to install, and altough they also solve dependencies automatically, they do not only list applications, but also all kinds of stupid utilities and hundreds if not thousands of libraries.
It would be great if people would make a simple menu for selecting applications, something like Tasksel, but with more tasks, grouped by application, and graphically. For example, this could be a quote from the list:
L Internet applications
| L Evolution
| L Flash plugin
| L Kopete
| L Mozilla
L Office
| L KOffice
| L OpenOffice
| L TeX (including LaTex, xfig and LyX)
L Command-line
L Compression tools (zip, unzip, unrar)
L Editors
| L Vim
| L Emacs
| L Other editors (nano, jed, joe)
L Scripting tools (dialog, lxdialog ...)
Now the only problem is that at the moment I have another project to code on... ;-)