Star Review: A Slackware User Looks at LindowsOS
Linked by Tarmo Hyvärinen on Thu 5th Feb 2004 20:41 UTC
Linspire 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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Re: "Compare Lindows and Knoppix"
by walterbyrd on Fri 6th Feb 2004 15:34 UTC

I was running knoppix 3.3 and replaced it with Lindows 4.5.

IMO: Knoppix is not the best desktop distro out there. Cut-and-paste is iffy, and multi-media is lacking.

Lindows did not load my other partitions, I don't think Lindows gave me any options when I installed - you get what you get.

Most importantly - by far - knoppix always booted up. The second time I booted Lindows, it hung during bootup. To be fair, I was having this problem with SuSe 9.0 also. I suspect that if I were not dual booting (XP/Linux), I would not have this problem at all. Still Knoppix worked with dual boot, Lindows did not.