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Mom Meets Linux - A Lindows 4.0 Review

Posted by michael on from the any-key dept.

JimLynch writes "We just put up the first review of Lindows 4.0, with a twist. I actually gave it to my Mom to see if she could use it. Find out if Lindows 4.0 passed the "Mom Test.""

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  1. That's nice. by Prince_Ali · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    It is always good to have access to more distros than just one. I assume you didn't also give her Lindows 4.0 since that wouldn't do her any good. So what was it, Redhat? Debian? Tell us what you gave her!

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    Slashdotter are stupid and biased.
  2. Hmmm... by Descartes · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Well, my mom works for a software company. I don't think this is a very difficult test.

  3. Review screenshots...click to view another thumb by moorg · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    We have all read hundreds of reviews of the latest software. Some are really interesting, others are combed through to get to the screen shots.

    Note to reviewers:
    If you are going to provide a thumbnail screenshot, then link to the larger image - at least make the larger image actual size, not another fuzzy scale-down.
  4. The biggest surprise from this by ospirata · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    One thing really surprised me about this Lindows review:

    Jim's mom is really ugly

  5. what's an advocac? by zapp · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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    "Consider yourself a member of a virtual corporation with Mr. Torvalds as your Chief Executive Officer." - Linux Advocac

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    no comment
  6. Re:Before the Lindows bashing begins...(too late) by bheerssen · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    but lindows is one of the last distros i'd set up for my parents. They charge to download software, that's not what i'm looking for in a nice learning package to give to my folks. My mom is able to operate Mandrake (after i had configed it) as easily as she can run windows (which i also configed). Lindows is still a very rude company in my mind, and I won't support them.
    the above is complete and utter flamebait and should be modded as such.

    Nice sig. Very accurate.

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