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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I’ve never managed to get my ADSL (crappy conexant winmodem) to work with any distribution either. I was ridiculed when I asked why I had to manually compile something to install potential drivers. Why I can’t just double click some drivers and it’s automated I do not know. Linux just doesn’t seem to have been very well thought out from the outset but I suppose it was never originally conceived as being a user friendly desktop OS.
The command prompt in windows serves no purpose but backward compatibility with older programs, in Linux it seems to be an integral part of the system and GUIs are considered a wimpy luxury by many users. I know you can install lots of distributions without using the command prompt, but when it comes to doing something complicated, or unusual you have to start typing senseless commands into that evil black screen.
I keep lerking in Linux forums and reading reviews as they appear for new distros trying some out now and then, but Linux still seems years behind windows when it comes to ease of use, and it’s many other benefits are irrelevant if you can’t use the damn thing.