[ale] Lindows vs the semi-annual Windows suck-a-thon

[miguel]

try lycoris distro..very windowie looking....

-miguel

Joe wrote:

>Hi folks,
>
>I'm sitting here trying to get Win98 working on my wife's machine
>*again*. As usual, the box, which boots and runs beautifully under
>Linux, absolutely refuses to function properly under Win98
>(specifically, it refuses to install any driver for a PCI
>network card of any description - well, Netgear FA311s and
>DLink D530s, anyway). There's little bits of computer guts
>scattered all over the living room as I try different combinations
>of junk-bin hardware, trying to create a system that Winblows
>will deign to boot properly on. Not exactly a recipe for marital
>bliss. I'd love to just install some variety of Linux on the
>thing and be done with it, but my last attempt to convert
>my wife ended with a fizzle.
>
>So into my inbox drops a CNN article about the new Lindows.com $799,
>1Ghz, 256MB, 20GB laptop. It looks pretty sweet, and the desktop looks
>familiar enough (read "Windows-esque") to prevent my lovely and
>talented but technophobic spouse from having a stroke. I wonder, can I
>download this OS? Surely I can, it says right on their web site it's
>based on Linux, so certainly it ought to be available under the GPL,
>no?
>
>But no, it's a proprietary EULA, with a specific exception
>for any open-source licensed software included in the
>distro. What's up with that?
>
>The Lindows OS is $129, and apparently I can get a complete
>system with Lindows pre-installed at Mall-Wart for $199.
>Hmm.
>
>So, anybody using Lindows? What do you think? If it sucks,
>what then would be a good distro to use for someone who doesn't
>necessarily like Windows, but is used to it and doesn't
>want to have to learn something else? (Hear those "distro
>flamewar" sirens wailing in the distance?)
>
>Thanks,
>
>-- Joe Knapka
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