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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.""

12 of 565 comments (clear)

  1. frist pist by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I win suckaz. ACs rule

  2. 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.
    1. Re:That's nice. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Knoppix me harder!

    2. Re:That's nice. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Be Gentoo to me baby!

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  4. Hmmm... by Descartes · · Score: 1, Offtopic

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

  5. Meat Mom by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I gave the meat to your mom... she was screamin' "LUNIX!!! LUNIX!!!"

  6. 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.
  7. 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

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

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

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    no comment
  9. 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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  10. Only Wankers... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Use the word "Wanker" in their sig.

    WANKERS stands for: Wankers are nerdy kiddies employing rancid scripts?