Linked by Adam S on Tue 25th Mar 2003 00:52 UTC
Knowing that ArkLinux is the offspring of Bernhard "Bero" Rosenkraenzer (interview here), a former Red Hat employee and KDE hacker, should make it one of the more interesting and, arguably, credible new Linux distributions to hit the streets in recent seasons. With the rise of Lycoris, Lindows, and Xandros, among others, Ark Linux is certainly a far cry from a surefire success. Let's take a look.
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"The refined, elegant apps and user experience are just not there. And the thing is that MS and Apple are continuing to bring new things to their experience, while the Linux crowd are just following three-four steps (or years) behind. However, Linux does a good server, I admit that."
oh c'mon...!
i agree that windows and osx are more polished in style as well as the apps, but linux is bridging the gap very quickly imo.
i use both xp and rh8, but to be honest, xp only because there's no kazaa for linux (afaik).
rh8 simply feels much more stable than xp, and i actually enjoy the lack of too much eyecandy and the focus on what's really important. i just installed realplayer on xp, and had a hard time to tame it the way i wanted ("uh, it was supposed to be a mediaplayer, but it looks like a browser...?!")
besides, there's nothing under windows that can't be done under linux (admitted, still a little tweaking is necessary, but this will change greatly with "autopackage" or a similar easy-to-use-distribution-independent-graphical installer), at least if you don't depend on 3rd-party commercial apps (which will also come oney day).
so imo, it's really not that bad.
looking forward to rh9!