Seattle Times Reviews Desktop Linux Distros

prostoalex writes "Seattle Times section on Personal Technology compares Xandros and Lindows as two alternatives to Windows for desktop computing. Their verdict: installation - excellent; OpenOffice - good enough; digital cameras, printers and other peripherals - excellent; CD burning - no problems; video playback - could be better (with more progress bars and support for Apple's formats); digital camcorders - poor; burning audio CDs - poor; Net access and Web browsing - no problems."

Comments

Integration with windows

[TheScorpion420]

I had absoultely no problem connecting my Linux box to my parents windows machine, but the funny part is I had problems connecting another windows machine to my parents PC. Hmm isn't that something. . .

Re:Partioning

[p_millipede]

Feel free to mod me down for going off topic and ranting on - and misspelling the second word in my post!

I think the NTFS partiton was actuall only 8GB, since this was a 30GB disc and the above totals to around 32. :)

Re:What about Gaming?

[Greyfox]

In the past week I've talked to 4 Windows users I know whose systems have become infected with worms or spyware. I tell them that Linux is much less succeptable to those and they laugh and say "Yeah but it won't run all my games." And that's just people I know. And some of these people have complained at great length about the cost of a Windows upgrade too (Oddly enough I never hear them complaining about the cost of those games...)