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Review: Lindows 2.0 Dissected

Posted by michael on from the PEBKAC-errors-very-likely dept.

Bob the Knob writes "Extremetech has done an in-depth review of Lindows. The guy who wrote it didn't think too much of Lindows before looking at it but he seemed to like it after doing a hands-on."

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  1. Re:Spotty Perfermance by tigertigr · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Instead of feature descriptions, many pages only said: "Our apologies. Sorry, but the help page for this item is not yet written.''

    The problem is that with free software, you can sort of get away with this. Frequent releases are common and most of the users are more knowledgeable and more forgiving of little defects. Of course, the above wouldn't fly with a "professionally released" product. You'd have a lot of irate, paying customers taking their business elsewhere. If the app crashes once in a while or is insecure, it might be a bit more acceptable to many users than a secure, reliable app that's got incomplete pages in its online manual or a hard to use UI. (I don't mean to compare GIMP or Photoshop. I'm speaking generally, of course.)

  2. Oh no he didnt. by GiBBerishLife · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    My God i cant believe he even put this in his review. if at all you call that piece of crap text a review;

    it hides the usual kernel text junk that appears during boot. SuSE, Red Hat and the other distros might want to consider doing this as well. It won't bother experienced users Ok Asshole, let ME and other true Linux users tell you that what you call "junk" is actually IMPORTANT text that i would LIKE to see on my screen. i could give a damn about the new users. put up with it.