Linked by Tarmo Hyvärinen on Thu 5th Feb 2004 20:41 UTC
Lindows.com offered LindowsOS Developer Edition free for one day, GoogleDay (Whatever that is, I don't know, google's birthday perhaps?) so I decided to test it. My favorite distribution this far has been (and still is) Slackware Linux, which has always, well, just worked. I've been using Linux for some years now, I use Solaris at work (I work as software designer). Trying out Lindows after Slackware was totally different world, and here's some of my toughts after trying out Lindows.
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OK, it was fine, we could test it for free, but it's all you can do with it. In fact all what Lindows offers for 59$ is an intentionally crippled KDE demo (try installing Mozilla plugins not using CNR). I can not imagine a normal user paying monthly fee for using free software. Even Windows is more acceptable under these conditions.
Compare Lindows and Knoppix. Both are Debian based, both provide easy installation, both will satisfy a complete computer newbie. But the amount of features in Knoppix is an order of magnitude higher, the cost is zero and you can download a new version every few weeks for free. I can not see a market niche for Lindows.