Linked by Barry Smith on Tue 23rd Dec 2003 20:02 UTC
So far this series has checked out Lindows 4.0, Libranet 2.8.1 and MEPIS 2003.10. Meanwhile both Lindows.com and Xandros have been busy little beavers and spat out new versions of their software, each on the same day. Since I am trying to find the best bang for my buck in a Debian based commercial distro, and since I am already a registered user of LindowsOS, I felt compelled to download a free copy of Lindows 4.5 to have a second look at this thing.
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...of some posters astound me, personally. The guy is obviously pleasing some people doing these reviews; myself, I was simply happy he liked Libranet as well (my 'fave, personally).
But some of the comments..."...stop whining because you bought crappy hardware"..."if you have problems with hardware detection, use Windows..."...yeesh, give me a fscking break you oh-so-L33T h4x0rs. One, this distro in particular <is> targeted at the same user Windows is...and don't give me "...it's meant for the machine you bought it on...", if so they'd mention something to that effect on their website...if a statement like that isn't there, don't put words in their mouths. Also, I'll bet anything that that Windows, the OS pointed to smugly to go to when l33ts can't handle criticism of anything *nix, can recognize this hardware right away.
Plus, he already stated that at least one other distro handled the same machine with aplomb...I had a bad experience getting my nForce2-based MB and GF4 card working under Fedora Core (lockups, panics, etc)...eventually figured it out, but Libranet worked it perfectly and I haven't worked back. Obviously, it was "crappy hardware".
Anyway, I don't mind seeing constructive criticism but damn some of these comments are just uncalled for. To all the "go back to Windows you idiot" types, I'll provide another Linux-ism: don't like the review? Do one yourself!!
Thanks for the effort, author.