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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Maybe if you like advertising, branding, and marketing worked into every last corner of the OS. I got a PC with Lindows pre-loaded to use as a file and application server at work last week. (It's one of the tiny Via Mini-ITX boxes...very cool) I gave Lindows a chance (well, about 10 minutes till I could stand it no longer) then wiped it out and put Mandrake 9.1 on it. I know it's a matter of taste, but the word "Lindows" is stupid and I don't like seeing it absolutely everywhere I look, on absolutely every screen, on absolutely every application and in absolutely every menu. Even all 15 or 20 default wallpapers Lindows comes with had the word Lindows on them. Yuck. If I wanted to be assaulted with advertising like that I would use Windows. I still firmly believe Mandrake's unpolluted KDE is much better for newbies and power users alike than Lindows. It looks better, it feels cleaner, and all the applications have their real names, not "Mandrake Office" "Mandrake Archiving Tool" "Mandrake Notepad" "Mandrake Media Player", and it comes with so much by default that a newbie would have no reason to shell out another $49 for the privilage of downloading free software.
I honestly don't know why anyone would curse someone they love with Lindows...can't you configure a Red Hat or Mandrake system for your GF that works better, is more up-to-date and more "free", or are you too lazy?