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The best desktop Linux for Windows users: Xandros 4 (DesktopLinux)

[Posted September 25, 2007 by ris]

DesktopLinux begins a series on the "best Linux desktop" with a look at the best system for a Windows user. "What's the best desktop Linux? For me, it's SimplyMEPIS 6.5, soon to be replaced by 7.0. But this is both a dumb question and a dumb answer. The real question is: What's the best desktop operating system for you?"

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Windows-friendly goodness?

Posted Sep 25, 2007 19:48 UTC (Tue) by vblum (guest, #1151) [Link]

ughh ... this sounds a bit too much like the migration path from Free Software to the M$ Linux license ...

... Paragon NTFS for Windows?? So the old story of Linux fragmentation by binary blobs is true. You may run the kernel for free, just pay a fee to obtain component X, Y, and Z in addition ...

... licensed the Exchange protocols?? So the local CIO can force everyone to pay for a Microsoft license even when they do not run Microsoft products themselves?

Ah well. (Not that I mind paying for software that is useful, just this sounds like the Proprietary Lockin Extension for Linux (TM).

Windows-friendly goodness?

Posted Sep 26, 2007 12:09 UTC (Wed) by cpm (guest, #3554) [Link]

I pretty much agree. I still see MS as the problem. Aspiring to be like MS
isn't really a viable answer.

I've been reading a bit of fun speculative fiction by Charles Stross called
Glasshouse. In this work, the base of the story revolves around trying to
figure out what happened just before the singularity. Seems that in the late
20th and early 21st century, folks -for some crazy reason- locked all their
information up in proprietary and very pooly documented formats, and even
crazier, wrapped all their cultural information up with encyption.

Windows-friendly goodness?

Posted Sep 26, 2007 13:28 UTC (Wed) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

Kind of ironic since you only can buy the book in proprietary, encrypted form (if you want digital copy)...

The best desktop Linux for Windows users: Xandros 4 (DesktopLinux)

Posted Sep 26, 2007 16:18 UTC (Wed) by gravious (subscriber, #7662) [Link]

I was going to post the following but then I stopped myself because I thought, "what's the point?"
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"Lovely wife and no kids at home"

But I know for a fact that Mr. Steven J. Vaughan Nichols in addition to the above has no wife and two lovely kids at his summer house in Florida. For them I would recommend nothing less than a Mini Cooper S.

What do you mean have I nothing better to be doing with my time? I did the washing-up, I recycled some lettuce and fed the dog. (Not all at the same time mind you.)

I promise that my next post will be extra-on-topic to make up for the wayward nature of this one.

For Mr. Nichols's next article I want a review of Gentoo 2007.0 and a run down on what the in-laws drive, I'm betting something cool like the new Tesla Roadster.

The best desktop Linux for Windows users: Xandros 4 (DesktopLinux)

Posted Sep 26, 2007 18:40 UTC (Wed) by heksys (guest, #41569) [Link]

For this I just recommend to not even bother to look at Linux or change at all. It's suppose to be so compatible and all so way even bother, you know what just change the log-on bitmap of MS xp and the boot up image for a Linux one and wallah there you have it... "Xandros 4"

The best desktop Linux for Windows users: Xandros 4 (DesktopLinux)

Posted Sep 27, 2007 13:14 UTC (Thu) by charlieb (subscriber, #23340) [Link]

Sigh...

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/dict.asp?Word=wallah
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/dict.asp?Word=voila