PrntScrn Posted February 15, 2004 Share Posted February 15, 2004 wtf is lindows? I read the stuff on it's page (http://www.lindows.com/lindows_sales_intro.php) but I am still kinda lost. It's like XP, but on a linux kernal or somethign to that extent? I don't even know what a kernal is other than **** that doesn't pop in popcorn and hurts my teeth. Can anyone explain what lindows is in idiot terms for me? Also, is it worth spending my time looking into it more? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt74441 Posted February 15, 2004 Share Posted February 15, 2004 Lindows is a version of Linux that is designed for newbies. Its designed to be a real alternative to Windows, but instead of paying a one time fee for Windows XP Home or Pro, you pay a yearly fee to download free Linux software. I've never used it before, and I'll use it when hell freezes over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kongit Posted February 15, 2004 Share Posted February 15, 2004 its a version of linux that is meant to somewhat emulate windows. in doing so it rids its self of many of linux's best abilities and traits. In my opinion it is worthless and you might as well use a normal linux distro or windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waxing Posted February 15, 2004 Share Posted February 15, 2004 Lindows is Linux, when it first came out it was intended to run Microsoft programs..since then lindows has dumped that stategy. Its selling point is CNR wich is like apt-get but only has apps that are compiled for lindows and it has a monthly fee of $4.95, and you are not paying for programs that are allready free....you pay for the service of CNR to install apps and updates for you with one click Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bryonhowley Posted February 15, 2004 Share Posted February 15, 2004 Lindows is a piece of crap that clames to be Linux. I use Linux (SUSE on my PC and Gentoo on my IMAC) but Lindows is pure crap. The best thing people can do to support Linux is to stay as fare away from Lindows as they can. Support Open Source don't buy Lindows!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MG-Cloud Posted February 15, 2004 Share Posted February 15, 2004 The best thing people can do to support Linux is to stay as fare away from Lindows as they can. Support Open Source don't buy Lindows!! I disagree with this ... take a look at the websites of a lot of your favourite Linux applications/communities (gaim, kde-look.org being among the most well-known), and tell me what the little banner on the side of the site says ;) While I personally don't agree with the paid model of Lindows, they are doing an excellent job of contributing back to the Linux community. Back on topic though, if you have the money and want to try it, it's apparently supposed to be a great stepping stone between Windows and Linux, if you're a little timid of taking the full plunge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted February 15, 2004 Veteran Share Posted February 15, 2004 First, don't predjudice yourself with all of other people's negative opinions. Lindows has a free download offer for their Developer's Edition at: http://www.nvu.com/landing_page.html Try it for yourself. I am sure you are intelligent enough to make up your own mind. Whether the outcome is that LindowsOS works for you, or not. It is your decision. And, for a summary of their support of Open Source, see here: http://info.lindows.com/opensource/ I will agree with posters who have said that it isn't as 'free' as other distros. However, LindowsOS isn't aimed for people who have installed Linux before. It is aimed at people like my mother-in-law who is clueless as to security and viruses, and would faint at a command prompt. It is a matter of being in the right demographics. Many Neowinners don't fall into the category of users they are targetting. LindowsOS puts polish on Linux, and tucks away the "scary stuff" from the newbies. Does this make them bad? I don't think so. Is it a distro I would run? No, but I would recommend giving it a try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digitallaughter Posted February 15, 2004 Share Posted February 15, 2004 Im downloading the Developers edtion with that free coupon code. Might as well give it a try. Doesnt look that bad actually......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nichotin Posted February 15, 2004 Share Posted February 15, 2004 even if you feel that lindows suck, think about this, lindows sponsored the prices for xbox linux, and now they are making a kickass WYSIWYG-html-editor (forked mozilla composer) called NVU. nvu looks real promising Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devilotX Posted February 15, 2004 Share Posted February 15, 2004 Lindows is a version of Linux that is designed for newbies. Its designed to be a real alternative to Windows, but instead of paying a one time fee for Windows XP Home or Pro, you pay a yearly fee to download free Linux software. I've never used it before, and I'll use it when hell freezes over. /rant on = Let me ask you a question, have you ever used lindows? wait... let me elaborate, have you ever used Lindows with the CNR service? If you had you would see that CNR Blows the hell out of apt get, it really is one click and everything works, you linux ******s spout off everytime Lindows is spoken about, and I bet a bunch of you have never touched it once. I don't run lindows, cause it doesn't do what I need, but my wife does, and CNR is a godsend, What other Linux Distro is making waves like Lindows? Lindows is sponsering Open Source software all over the place, even though they are bleeding money. I guess a person such as yourself changes your own oil, and cuts you own hair right? You've never eaten at a resturant ever I bet right? oh? you have? Well what the hell? why would you pay someone to cook you a steak when you can cook it yourself at home? I'll eat at a resturant WHEN HELL FREEZES OVER. See how dumb that sounds? Thats how dumb people sound when they spout off about Lindows, you sound retarded, if lindows is not right for you, thats fine, but there is no need for anyone to spout sh*t everytime its brought up, I started my Linux Journey with Lindows and I'm proud to be a lifetime member, Lindows just works... in the end thats all people will care about, not whether they can apt-get their program, but Does the frigging thing work? Once click in CNR and it just works... Thats all that matters, Lindows makes a distro for a common user... your more then a common user? thats good, go play with Gentoo or something.... /Rant off Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AquaFX Posted February 15, 2004 Share Posted February 15, 2004 Lindows really sucks, all it does is look like windows but operates like linux, but the thing is that is doesn't even run native linux software, most of them are modified. So there is isn't a point that that os but just for ppl that want to try it and give it to there kids and stuff. Like matt said, "i will use it when hell freezes over" and i totaly stand beside him on that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akaladis Veteran Posted February 15, 2004 Veteran Share Posted February 15, 2004 for me, lindows is an attempt of the linux world to become something else... a win32/linux hybrid... i like pure linux distros a lot more... but thats just me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devilotX Posted February 15, 2004 Share Posted February 15, 2004 What do you mean moddified? Everything looks like it should to me you mean changing Kwrite to Text Editor Or GAIM to Instant Messanger? What Common Windows user would know what EMACS is? "Emacs? is that an apple computer?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaron901 Posted February 15, 2004 Share Posted February 15, 2004 just tried out LindowsLive, all i can say is that it's made me loves Windows XP more and Mac OSX even more. :D :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emon Posted February 15, 2004 Share Posted February 15, 2004 same here ..just tried Lindows last night .... disappointing experience. If anyone wants a noob oriented Linux distro then they should go for Gobo Linux not this Lindows POS. It doesn't mount any of your other partitions, The installation process sucks .. it doesn't detect any other OS installed in your PC and if I look around more, I am sure I will find more flaws ..but I just don't want to. And changing name for every app is just a NO NO :no: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dreamthief Posted February 15, 2004 Share Posted February 15, 2004 Tried Lindows, didn't like it. You are better off with Mandrake, Suse or Redhat if you are new in Linux. Gentoo is a good choice for more advanced users Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted February 15, 2004 Veteran Share Posted February 15, 2004 same here ..just tried Lindows last night .... disappointing experience. If anyone wants a noob oriented Linux distro then they should go for Gobo Linux not this Lindows POS.It doesn't mount any of your other partitions, The installation process sucks .. it doesn't detect any other OS installed in your PC and if I look around more, I am sure I will find more flaws ..but I just don't want to. And changing name for every app is just a NO NO :no: This is an excellent example of a review from someone WAY OUTSIDE the target market for LindowsOS. Lindows is not targeted at people who want to run Windows + Slack + Gentoo + FreeBSD. People who use Lindows aren't going to be the ones who want to make sure vi stays named "vi", and want to remember they use "gtkam" to get pictures from their camera. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrntScrn Posted February 15, 2004 Author Share Posted February 15, 2004 Well thank's for your replies. I think I'll just stick with my XP Home :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt74441 Posted February 15, 2004 Share Posted February 15, 2004 /rant on = Let me ask you a question, have you ever used lindows? wait... let me elaborate, have you ever used Lindows with the CNR service?If you had you would see that CNR Blows the hell out of apt get, it really is one click and everything works, you linux ******s spout off everytime Lindows is spoken about, and I bet a bunch of you have never touched it once. I don't run lindows, cause it doesn't do what I need, but my wife does, and CNR is a godsend, What other Linux Distro is making waves like Lindows? Lindows is sponsering Open Source software all over the place, even though they are bleeding money. I guess a person such as yourself changes your own oil, and cuts you own hair right? You've never eaten at a resturant ever I bet right? oh? you have? Well what the hell? why would you pay someone to cook you a steak when you can cook it yourself at home? I'll eat at a resturant WHEN HELL FREEZES OVER. See how dumb that sounds? Thats how dumb people sound when they spout off about Lindows, you sound retarded, if lindows is not right for you, thats fine, but there is no need for anyone to spout sh*t everytime its brought up, I started my Linux Journey with Lindows and I'm proud to be a lifetime member, Lindows just works... in the end thats all people will care about, not whether they can apt-get their program, but Does the frigging thing work? Once click in CNR and it just works... Thats all that matters, Lindows makes a distro for a common user... your more then a common user? thats good, go play with Gentoo or something.... /Rant off I guess I just said all of that because I'm am a somewhat experienced Linux user :) I'm sure that CNR is an interesting and powerful feautre, but seriously, it is not that hard to install a program from source, or from an RPM. Just because I use a Debian based distro (which I actually paid for), doesn't mean that I apt-get everything. I'm glad that there are companies out there supporting Linux, but Linux will survive without Lindows. I don't own a car, so I don't change my own oil, but with the money that I save by not using Lindows, I can just pay someone to cut my hair for me. I've eaten at the occasional restaurant, again with the money that I saved by not paying for free software. I think I may have contradicted myself :whistle: I'm glad that you are a dedicated Lindows user, they need all the help that they can get. If I were to even try Lindows, it would be a huge step in the wrong direction. I'll stick with Libranet, because it just works... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted February 15, 2004 Veteran Share Posted February 15, 2004 Well thank's for your replies. I think I'll just stick with my XP Home :) For most Neowinners, their current OS of choice will be more useful than Lindows. It really isn't designed for most of us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jack_canada Posted February 15, 2004 Share Posted February 15, 2004 I would like to try lindows since it's free to download Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrStaticVoid Posted February 15, 2004 Share Posted February 15, 2004 I was fairly impressed by its review: http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=5999 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted February 15, 2004 Veteran Share Posted February 15, 2004 I was fairly impressed by its review: http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=5999 @jack_canada: Lindows is worth the free downoad. Try it and see for yourself. It may not be for you, but at least see it first-hand. The review in OSNews is what really changed my opinion of LindowsOS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AOXOMOXOA Posted February 15, 2004 Share Posted February 15, 2004 @jack_canada:Lindows is worth the free downoad. Try it and see for yourself. It may not be for you, but at least see it first-hand. The review in OSNews is what really changed my opinion of LindowsOS. i have been tryng to download this all night.. it keeps timing out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kongit Posted February 15, 2004 Share Posted February 15, 2004 I don't care about lindows...I am never going to use it. And I won't suggest other people use it either to replace xp or another linux distro if they know what they are doing. I feel that lindows is somewhere lost between windows and linux and neither can call it their own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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