LindowsOS and Mac OS X

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LindowsOS website says: "The stability of Linux with the ease of Windows."

Isn't that very similar to Apple's motto for Mac OS X?

Does anybody know whether Lindows started first or OS X started first (I know NeXTSTEP has been around for a while)?

Lindows looks interesting, and I must say a tad bit more nicer GUI then Windows, but I can't see it getting anywhere. OS X just beats it's pants off.
 
Lindows has been a concept and in beta for awhile, but OS X beat it to market.

Lindows overall goal of making Linux ready and useable for the desktop is quite noble, but they've messed up a couple of important details...

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While the subscription model doesn't sound too appealing, everything else seems to be nudging Linux closer to an easy to use Grandma proof OS. Still quite a ways to go, but progress is being made.
 
It's quite certain that Lindows was later. However: You can't tell them NOT to use the slogan, as Apple certainly doesn't claim the same...

However, there are better linux distros than Lindows - for less, too...
 
If you have the time (and HD space and the blank CDs), RedHat's latest is quite good. As is SuSe Linux as well. The installs are still a little hairy if you have a component that isn't what the installer considers standard, but it's quite an improvement over previous Linux distros...
 
LindowsOS website says: "The stability of Linux with the ease of Windows."

Wow, that's like saying, "The stability of Linux"
 
LindowsOS website says: "The stability of Linux with the ease of Windows." Wow, that's like saying, "The stability of Linux"
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Funny, but if you've tried to install a Linux distro, you quickly realized that for all it's faults, Windows is user friendly to some degree, where Linux really isn't. It's getting better, but it still has a ways to go before it's grandma proof...

I firmly believe that if some Linux developers/engineers truly understood what ease of use meant, they would have had a desktop capable OS 2 years ago. As it is, Linux still speaks "geek" and expects the user to speak it as well. Grandma don't speak geek, and won't waste her time with an OS that requires her to, even if it's free.

Once Linux gets their install process, UI, and app installation to where any laymen or former Windows user can work it, they will have an OS capable of toppling Windows.

Until then, it's geek city...
 
Originally posted by serpicolugnut
Funny, but if you've tried to install a Linux distro, you quickly realized that for all it's faults, Windows is user friendly to some degree, where Linux really isn't. It's getting better, but it still has a ways to go before it's grandma proof...
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Until then, it's geek city...
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Agreed, currently any Linux distro and OSX are like night and day wrt average desktop use. Linux has surely improved, but has a looooooong way to go. Even if they do clean up the basic OS stuff and solidify the UI, there is still the issue of the hodgepodge one faces with the apps.

I've said all along that Linux's greatest strength is it's greatest weakness, the concept of a loose group of individuals donating their time to create apps. I know that distros like Redhat have people working on it, but they considerable more concerned about the server space vs the desktop space (as they should be to stay alive). But you start looking at the window manager wars, and the lack of ui standards at the desktop level, and the lack of ui standards at the app level, and you see that Linux would benefit greatly from an overarching leadership in that area, similar to how Linus controls the kernel. Until then, it's hard to imagine any great strides being taken. When the only answer Linux users have to apps like Office is OpenOffice, you know their in deep doodoo (OpenOffice is a bloated piece of junk IMHO, I guess it's fine if you have no other choice, but that is the only scenerio that it is the "superior" choice).

Of course this is one of the areas that Apple excels in, due to that singular control (Apple is on the other extreme as Linux, M$ is kinda in the middle, though definitely closer to Apple than Linux in that regard).
 
Please don't add Windows to this thread. It's about Lindows OS and Mac OS X. (Moving it into Apple General...)
 
Tell ya --- I have Lindows 3.0 on my laptop ---- and it is easier than windows - Not up to Par with OSX ( my choice ) but still good for x86. It literaly installs in 7 minutes on a compaq armada 7800, 300 mhz with 128 meg'o ram. Its easy! But still not going to give up my mac!..

http://www.lindowsclub.com/ <--- free software for lindows and how-tos

Acidtuch10
 
It looks like a rip-off of Windows.
I went through their little Flash Demo, and apart from the menu at the bottom (which is only slightly different) it looks like Windows. Even the Icons look similar.
 
Originally posted by scruffy
LindowsOS website says: "The stability of Linux with the ease of Windows."

Wow, that's like saying, "The stability of Linux"
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You beat me to the punch!
 
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