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Two Lackluster Reviews For LindowsOS on Wal-Mart PCs

Posted by timothy on from the that's-a-lot-for-two-bum-downloads dept.

Eugenia writes: "Two individual reviews of LindowsOS running on the MicroTel/Wal-Mart hardware were published today. The first can be found over at NewsForge and the other one at BayArea.com. Both reviews are not positive for the Lindows solution and they are not excited about the idea of Click-n-Run."

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  1. Re:Sadly by GigsVT · · Score: 0, Troll

    Microsoft offers you one way of doing things

    Sure. Like if I want to run a program, there is only one way, oh wait, I can open up "My computer" find the EXE and run it, I can open up IE, and browse my local drives that way, I can run the two pane explorer.exe and get a different interface to run things from, I can make a short cut on my desktop to run it, I can make a shortcut in the taskbar to run it, I could select it from the "Start" menu, or even pop up cmd.exe and run it there.

    Face it, MS is just as complex as something like Linux, without the freedom that you get with Linux along with complexity.

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  2. Re:Time by rgbrenner · · Score: 0, Troll

    I disagree. From my own experiences, Windows takes longer than *nix. Having to click through multiple levels of menus just to change one settings is not quicker than editing a text file.

    Consider the simple task of browsing through your file system. Lets say you want get to C:\Windows\System\DirectX. In Windows I can:

    Click on My Computer
    Click on C
    Find and Click on Windows
    Find and Click on System
    Find and Click on DirectX
    Or (if *nix had these directories) I could:

    Type cd /Windows/System/DirectX
    Doing that simple task in Windows is going to require many times the amount of time it takes in *nix.