Linked by Phil Hall on Thu 5th Dec 2002 00:35 UTC
I'm a long-time Windows user, but for years I've been searching for an intelligent alternative. Macs are actually a great choice, but have you priced them lately? I don't have two grand to spend for another system. I had been reading all the hoopla surrounding Xandros Desktop for a number of months and decided to take the plunge. I had been burned two times previously trying to install other Linux distributions. Their tech support was non-existent. I'm essentially working in a vacuum. When something has gone wrong in the past, I've found that I was on my own. 
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well, phil had a different experience than i did.
i just installed xandros, and i'm posting this from xandros under mozilla.
- desktop properties
i received no error when right-clicking on the desktop & choosing properties.
plus there's a dialog box for adjusting the refresh rate. sweet!
-change startup/shutdown sounds
launch(start)>control center>sound>system notifications>
kde system notifications>kde is starting up ...or >kde is exiting
- solitare
what's wrong with solitare? looks just fine to me.
plus it works like it's supposed to. i actually play
freecell, and the ms version often has the spaces available
to move a row, but moves all but on card. dammit. most annoying.
whoever programmed freecell on xandros did a much better job
than the bozo at ms. also undo actually works, unlike the ms version.
-ms office
i put in the ms office 2000 cd, it autobooted, open office came up automatically,
and i installed everything except fast find and the stupid paperclip: ie, word,
excel, pp, access, outlook & frontpage. of course access lumbers along tyring to
access some non-existant resource (i'm guessing) and frontpage terminates just
after it loads, but pp seems ok. word, excel and ie work just fine.
- shortcuts
alt-tab works, that's all i care about. the windows key bring up the start menu.
- burning cd's
there's a linux native installation of fireburner. haven't installed it yet.
but i will once i have something to burn.