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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Since they were giving away lindows for free, so I thought I would give it a try. Good install - but not as good as Suse, lindows didn't find my win-modem, or my usb-scanner, lindows didn't mount other partitions. No options with the install, you get what you get. Frankly, I think of Lindows as more of a marketing gimmick than anything else. I mean, what do you get for $70 that you can't get for free (if you have broadband), or for a couple of dollars if you want a cd mailed to you? Mandrake, Fedora, and SuSe, are all very easy to install and use. Lindows does look more like windows than any other version I've used, but so what? Frankly I think windows, kde, gnome, and macos, look more similar than different. Oh yea, after you pay $70 for lindows, they want you to buy other stuff like anti-virus etc, lindows also wants to pay $50 a year for a clink-n-run feature that you don't need (just use apt-get). Nothing wrong with Lindows, I'm using it right now. But, like prostitutes and parking spaces, why pay when - with a little patience and persistance - you can get it for free? One thing newbies will like about lindows: you get one editor - not twelve, same with other apps. Again, for newbies, this will be much less confusing.