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A Visual Comparison Between XP And Mandrake

Posted by timothy on from the look-and-feel- dept.

Mifflesticks points to this interesting "visual comparison" between Mandrake 8.0 and Windows XP. Even though it's specifically a visual / aesthetic comparison, this piece actually sums up the good things about XP -- good device detection, multiple users set up from the install, improved network configuration -- better than anything else I've seen. The conclusion seems to be that anyone who's set up a modern Linux distro (Mandrake in particular) on supported hardware would find nothing too new in XP.

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  1. Ummm... by SCHecklerX · · Score: 5, Informative
    Mandrake != KDE

    How can you possibly do a 'visual' comparison of a linux distro vs. anything? And that begs the question who really cares about a visual comparison? I'd rather see a comparison at how elegantly and efficiently each UI does a particular task. IMNSHO, OS/2's WPS has them all beat, and did it back in 1993 with 486's on 8MB of RAM!

    I'm on Mandrake 7.2 here, running Windowmaker + ROX-Filer. I hate any UI that depends on a braindead 'task bar' somewhere on the screen. Either I'm smoking crack, or what I'm running must not be Mandrake, eh?

    My preferred UI stays the hell out of my way, but is pretty enough to show off at the same time.

  2. Re:Switch User functionality by thal · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is already available in Linux:

    • hit ctrl-alt-F[1-6] to get out of the current X session to a virtual terminal
    • login with other user
    • xinit -- :1

    Now you have two completely separate X sessions running at the same time. I've no idea if there's a point-and-click (x|k|g)dm way to do this, but the capability is there.