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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Sitting here on a Debian machine, I can say that you're completely off base:
...still as hard as it was to install or uninstall files..
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If by files you mean programs, than no! Installing software is a matter of "apt-get <package-name>" In the rare case its not in the Debian repository, I can almost always find an APT repository after a minute of Google-ing (or searching www.apt-get.org). After that, software install involves copying-and-pasting a line into /etc/apt/sources.list, and then running apt-get. Installing software in a modern Linux distro (with APT, Yum, or Urpmi) takes no more than a few seconds, compared to several minutes for Windows.
...still slower..
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KDE 3.x, anyway, is comparable to Windows XP on this machine. XP is hardly fast, but KDE is no slower. In some respects KDE is slower (Konqueror's resize performance is worse than IE's), and in some respects KDE is faster (expose lag is almost non-existent in KDE, but noticible in Windows).
...still inconsistent..
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My desktop is far more consistent than my Windows one. Between Konqueror, KOffice, KMail, and KDevelop, I use one toolkit. Between IE, MS Office, Outlook, and Visual Studio, I use three toolkits. In KDE, my media player looks identical to my web browser. WMP looks nothing like IE.
...still xfree..
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Okay, you're right. It *is* still XFree. But its hardly behind. XP does window transparency only at a full-window level, and thus doesn't really use it (like OS X does). Other than that, I've got the same drop shadows on menus, etc. And I'll bet good money that the freedesktop.org X server (with full OpenGL acceleration and lots of nice eye candy) will be out before Longhorn gets the equivilent in 2006.