Review: Lindows on Microtel (San Jose Mercury News) [LWN.net]

Here's a review of the Microtel computer running Lindows from the San Jose Mercury News. "The resulting mess will make no one happy. Experienced Linux users, a savvy bunch, won't need the hand-holding provided by what the company calls LindowsOS. Ordinary non-technical consumers are likely to fall into one of the many holes in the LindowsOS structure, canceling out any benefit from the slightly lower cost of buying a personal computer without Microsoft's current Windows XP Home Edition."

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Review: Lindows on Microtel (San Jose Mercury News)

Posted Jul 8, 2002 12:57 UTC (Mon) by DeletedUser1644 ((unknown), #1644) [Link]

Just more of the same trash you'd expect from any of the M$ bought and paid for fudsters. Lindows is probably lame but a number of blatant falsehoods including "Linux is more difficult to install than Windows" P'Lease grab a brain!

Review: Lindows on Microtel (San Jose Mercury News)

Posted Aug 29, 2002 17:26 UTC (Thu) by zerofield (guest, #3494) [Link]

Heh, i agree. Even Debian which has been regarded as the "most difficult distribution" is absurdly easy to install. If you take the bloated route, which you might as well do in a windows vs linux comparison, it even loads up your GUI 90% of the time.

I have to comment on this ->
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Instead, the company sent me complicated and potentially risky instructions for changing the refresh rate by entering obscure Unix commands such as "xf86cfg."
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Ok im sorry, but if you find "xf86cfg" or any derivative of that command as a "potentially risky and complicated" ordeal, then you probably find using your can opener a life threatening event.

As whoever started this stated, please get a brain.

Review: Lindows on Microtel (San Jose Mercury News)

Posted Aug 16, 2002 12:06 UTC (Fri) by MemoryFailure (guest, #3291) [Link]

I'm not suprised that programs ran sluggishly on Lindows in his test, he ran Lindows on a computer with old, slow cheap hardware. I wonder what kind of computer Windows was running on in this "side-by-side comparison." It's hardly logical or scientific to compare them on different hardware.