Linked by Brandon on Sun 9th Mar 2003 07:57 UTC
I chose to checkout Lindows 3.0 because it had been in the news a lot and it had interested me. I had expected more from it though. I expected more applications and much better configuration tools as it is aimed at the Desktop audience.
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I agree with those of you that were impressed that a 12 year old installed the os and wrote this review. I wish I had been that far along when I was in high school, as far as installing and os goes.
Let me say that I did not want to like Lindows as it seemed too damn commercial, but after trying it out it is the best Linux distro that I have tried. For references sake: I tried out Ark, SuSE, RH8, Lycoris, Mandrake 9, and United Linux. Ark would be my second choice after Lindows.
My experience with Lindows has been, in a word, excellent. Ths install was painfully effortless and unbelievably fast... 7 minutes in total and everything worked OOTB which was very refreshing. My only complaint is the aforementioned lack of applications, like Open Office, that come with the distro. Forutnately I knew how, as you all do, to circumvent my limited CNR alotment (bought the $49 downloadable version which came with a very limited number of possible CNR's) by using the all powerful apt-get feature. Needless to say, that with very little effort I had all the app.'s that I needed and had a Windows comparable system for FAR less money and no draconian features running without my knowledge.
Buy it, try it and see what you think. I'm sold.