LindowsOS or Xandros Desktop? -- points about lindows

LindowsOS or Xandros Desktop? -- points about lindows

Posted Dec 18, 2003 16:41 UTC (Thu) by openhacker (subscriber, #1614)
In reply to: LindowsOS or Xandros Desktop? by beejaybee
Parent article: LindowsOS or Xandros Desktop?

I've had very negative experiences with lindows (installing
and helping my friend).

The default is root, but you can override it. But it takes
2 minutes to explain why you shouldn't run as root...this is
such a dumbed down distro -- I don't understnad why they don't.

I helped a friend install lindows 2.0 and 4.0 -- and various
system admin tools (and man and info) are not there
(you have to see the documentation through the X help browser --
I'm not sure whether the default was kde or gnome now).

When my friend calls me on the phone, it would be very nice if I can
give her some hints to try to understand a problem, like:

type in lspci

or

type in hdparm

and do

man hdparm

for more information

Unfortunately, these commands don't exist in the distro (there may be equivalent
functionality in many cases with a GUI interface), but command lines
are useful to give remotely -- GUIs you have to demonstrate...

(geez, don't people realize this?)

But it did install in about 10 minutes, which was kinda amazing...

marty

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