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The end user: Lindows, the anti-Windows, turns out to be a lot of work | |
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| Time: 04:32 EST/09:32 GMT | News Source: E-Mail | Posted By: Bill Roach | ||
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For several years now I have thought longingly about Linux, the power-to-the-people operating system that is said to be as stable as a rock, open and free and the embodiment of everything good in the world - in short, the exact opposite of Microsoft's Windows, both technically and politically. But I also know that Linux, for all its reputed strengths, is not a consumer product. It is very hard for the average person to successfully install and get running. Before attempting to install it, anyone who doesn't have at least an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering should consider the warning of Dante at the gates of hell: "Abandon all hope, ye who enter here." | ||
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| #1 By 2459 (24.170.151.19) at 2/10/2003 5:38:00 AM |
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How I wish I could tell you that Lindows is the answer to all your computer woes. Alas, it isn't. Mine hangs up, does strange and unexpected things, refuses to do what it's supposed to and presents me with incomprehensible error messages. Frankly, if Lindows is better than Windows, I'm Mahatma Gandhi.
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| #2 By 2459 (24.170.151.19) at 2/10/2003 8:20:41 AM |
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His commentary goes directly towards the OOTB experience Lindows offers the average end user. Lindows is trying to sell the average user this Linux-based OS as a cheap alternative to Windows (though their pricing pretty much kills this claim). Most users buying into Lindows for the cheap selling price of the computers are probably going to be even less enthused about the problems this guy encountered. If you have to go to a command line everytime something breaks, and the chief selling points of the OS don't work, this negates all claimed usability comparisons with Windows. You can't just build a frontend to command line tools that tell people to go to the command line whenever there is an error, especially when the error dialog offers little information other than the command.
The time to productivity is a credible measure of user friendliness, and ease of use of the OS. You don't have to be an ABMer to find this amusing. The guy would have had an easier time on a Mac, or maybe even something like BeOS. It's also amusing because this isn't the only bad review I've seen concerning Lindows. The only good things I've seen concerning Lindows have come from Lindows/Robertson. This is another example of the OS not living up to the company/Robertson's claims. Robertson has made enemies with Microsoft and Linux supporters due to false claims, bad positioning, unfulfilled expectations, and trying to make a buck by piggybacking of of the Windows name. Why bother buying a Lindows PC when a more completely equipped Windows PC can be purchased for not much much difference in price, but a significant difference in efficiency/usability? |
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