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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When I tried to install Lindows 4.5, it became apparent very quickly that it doesn't like my SATA hard drive: it didn't recognize any medium it could install on. End of attempt. No biggie: the resident Lindows board member has explained often, how Lindows prefers average users with average computers with pre-installed Lindows. And I imagine it may take six more months before SATA becomes 'average'.
On my notebook however it did install. And it was the first distribution ever to recognize the built-in modem (thus far this notebook has experienced Windows 98 & 2000 including extensive driver hunts, and offerings from Red Hat[9], Mandrake [9.1], and Suse[9]). If it takes three minutes of booting to accomplish that (it felt more like one or two), then by all means, let it boot.
Despite all assurances to the opposite however, I had no chance to create additional users before my first login. Just the administrator (root). Maybe because I chose advanced install (no don't take over my entire drive!) The lack of a partitioner is irritating (even in Windows I always use two partitions, one for programs and one for documents).
The desktop experience to me was slick, the KDE menu not over-crowded, the audiovisual help system was interesting as a concept.
Drive detection was weird. On the internal disk, Windows partitions aren't found, but Linux partitions (well, one standard '/home' partition) are; my two USB Windows partitions are found.
As a Suse user, I felt the lack of something YaST-like; an extremely user-friendly yet powerful configuration tool could benefit this distribution.
But the modem support alone tells me that I'll leave this OS installed for a while.