“Lindows is sleak, flashy, fun, quick, and way easy to use! If you are a computer user and are looking for an alternative to Windows, or just want to try out a user friendly Linux distro, try out Lindows. If you are a Linux guru and are happy with your current distro, excellent, that is what make Linux great – variety. If you are curious, give that 15 day trial period a try.” Read the review at NeoLinkComputers.
Lindows 4.0 with Click-N-Run Review
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Aside from the customer service issues, this looks awesome!
I’ve never liked Lindows; now, I actually see the point of Click ‘n’ Run. If you think about it, Click ‘n’ Run is sort of the ideal of the GPL–it’s a service designed to make stuff that is normally free easier and more painless to install. You are free to use Synaptic or whatever; I guarantee, however, that people will prefer Click ‘n’ Run.
It reads as if it were written by a 10 year old.
He makes some very good points. Most newcomers to Linux want and need a very simple Windows type system installation process. It was nice to see it written as if a 10 year old had written it – nice and easy to understand. I find it very disappointing to see so many negative comments from the Linux community – elitism. There is no encouragement for newcomers, unlike the Beos community. Linux needs more reviews like this.
“15 day trial period” HaHa, yeah, whatever…
“15 day trial period”
The 15-day trial seems to be a trial of Click-and-Run, not a trial of Lindows OS
You have to pay for this OS before you can try it, even the LiveCD version is only for paying customers. It does sound pretty good but I maintain I’ll never pay for an OS before I have tested it with my hardware and software.
Same goes for Windows.
how about work on “root” account by default? does it still exist in Lindows? IMHO it is (was?) the only “insecure by default” Linux distro…
Yes it is root by default, but it does allow you to set up users so you don’t have to. Some people don’t care if they’re operating as root…
well, you can always enable normal user account. but working with root privileges by default makes Lindows the same crap as Windows is (which is obviously the main reason why Windows is so vulnerable to viruses or worms…)
Well Ive tried Lindows 3.0 but never really liked it all that much.
Lol crazy flash:
http://info.lindows.com/LindowsRock/LindowsRock.swf
I find it very disappointing to see so many negative comments from the Linux community
Obviously, you have not seen the previous comments in the previous stories about Lindows 😉
One reason for this relative calm is perhaps that Lindows has finally done one thing right : they now support Daniel Glazman and his important project Mozilla Composer (now NVU, or something like that)
One thing right? How about sponsoring gaim? How about contributing back all of the code they wrote for WINE? How about making a Linux distribution that anyone can use?
Lol crazy flash:
http://info.lindows.com/LindowsRock/LindowsRock.swf
Cute.
I think its great that someone would make a linux distro that my mom could use.. i mean yeah if ya wanna be leet use slack or (?) gentoo or bsd or debian.. do all yer own config..learn to edit in vi.. but if ya want to see linux “world domination” than a lindows type distro is needed for the masses who think a cdrom door is still a cupholder and a mouse is a footswitch. In other words get over yourselves.
“One thing right? How about sponsoring gaim? How about contributing back all of the code they wrote for WINE? How about making a Linux distribution that anyone can use?”
How about sponsoring kde-look.org too?
/g
that they gave away 100,000 to the top 5 lindows insider selected projects and that they sponsor kde-look and kde
1) This is not a windows-style installation system. This is automatic, and coherent. All your software is in one place, a single click away. That is *nothing* like the Windows installer.
2) There is never an excuse for poor writing! There is a difference between writing that is easy to read (a hallmark of *mature* writing) and the incoherent scribblings of a child.
On a home desktop system, who cares if you run as root. consider that a regular home user has all their important personal files in their home directory anyway, it really makes no difference if you use a user account or not.
Just my opinion, and I personally use a usr account out of habit. But really, what’s the big deal for a home desktop?
I’d actually like to see a good review of ark linux to see what people think of it’s user management system. Aparently it’s got something new and unique.
“On a home desktop system, who cares if you run as root.”
Two things:
1) Being root means that if you run a trojan or a virus, it can wreck everything on the system, and if there are multiple users on the system (which might be the case with a family computer), then all the users could get trashed.
2) Making root the default means that packagers sometimes get lazy and don’t allow non-root users a way to run privileged services, such as starting a dial-up connection to the internet.
It might be worth the money if the packages were kept up to date, but OpenOffice 1.1.0 has been out for awhile now and that screenie showed 1.0.
I thought the article was pretty good for OSNews. Again, a more longitudinal experience would be far better, say using it for a couple of months vs ten minutes.
If linux is supposed to be all powerful and virus proof why all the trub with running in root?
Lindows has firewall yes?
Also linux sux for compatible stuff anyways, not being a programmer i no not anyone who can make drivers for me. With people who supply drivers for windows you get the right drivers immediat k?
Othewise wait a few years and ssee if linux really takes off for the normal home user.
1) Being root means that if you run a trojan or a virus, it can wreck everything on the system, and if there are multiple users on the system (which might be the case with a family computer), then all the users could get trashed.
And…? Running as non-root means that Grandma will get a dialog (or something applicable) and type in her “Administration” password as per her regular routine when getting this dialog. She will then give permission for the worm or virus to run without knowing any better.
Forcing security on a user doesn’t educate them. It just frustrates them, and makes them use Windows. Lindows has it right, for now.
@darn
You are illiterate. Go away.