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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If I wrote a review of Lindows, it'd be pretty much exactly the same as this review. Slackware user, laptop, thought the modprobing was a cheap hack, etc. A few differences, though;
My wifi card worked out of the box. It would detect, but not connect to, the access point. I got the CNR trial membership, and even went so far as to buy the $15 "laptop tools" addon. This offer is a complete ripoff; all it offers is Sleep Mode. ACPI still doesn't work. I even downloaded the Laptop Edition (offered for free download to members, I think). This was the exact same thing as Devel. Ed., except the screen flickered til I modified the XF86Config, the Wifi card quit working at all, the Synaptic drivers for my mouse weren't installed (though the developer version includes them), and some packages were different.
I'm impressed by the hardware detection / configuration all working out of the box, and CNR is VERY cool (think Synaptic, except with a *much* nicer interface). But the rest just made me go back to slack.
On the bright side, I got a lot of hardware working perfectly under slack by looking at how Lindows had it configured :-)