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Thread: LindowsOS???

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    Question LindowsOS???

    I know this isn't a coding question, but this is the forum everyone seems to look at the most.
    Has anyone used the LindowsOS? If so, what do you think of it. I've never used linux but want to learn how, and was wondering if maybe i should look into LindowsOS, i mean i know it's not like other Linux/Unix OSs, but just wondering all the same
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    Lycoris is a Linux OS very much like Windows
    Its also free the last time I looked.
    I dont think Lindows is...

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    Re: LindowsOS???

    Originally posted by SuperChris9
    I know this isn't a coding question, but this is the forum everyone seems to look at the most.
    Has anyone used the LindowsOS? If so, what do you think of it. I've never used linux but want to learn how, and was wondering if maybe i should look into LindowsOS, i mean i know it's not like other Linux/Unix OSs, but just wondering all the same
    Just get mandrake, both Gnome and KDE looks and feels like windows, so you just need to learn the terminal commands... You could use Red Hat as well...
    "Lies, sanctions, and cruise missiles have never created a free and just society. Only everyday people can do that."
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    Hear me roar.

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    Lindows sounds like it failed

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    Just slap XPDE onto any Linux distro...voila. Windows

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    Lindows isn't free, however I DID post a coupon code here so anyone could get it for free, but no one even replied to that.

    Lindows has a better packaging system than Mandrake and Redhat combined. You click on a program out of thousands and BOOM, it's installed! It's similar to mandrake, but is alot easier to use and has better driver support.

    But still, Gentoo > *

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    Lindows, to put it lightly, is utter ****, there is nothing special about it, all they WERE going to do was implement Wine closer and trying and make it look like windows, how pointless trying to make an OS look like the ****est OS on the planet.

    I did notice that kasracer, I would have paid $10 to get the boxed version for the hell of it (try and sell it on ebay etc ) but it would have cost $70 delivery :/



    Learning linux on the likes of redhat is phaff, you dont just jump into a GUI and go... OMFG IM USING LINUX, I R TEH LEET0R

    start with gentoo, for beginners and the advanced

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    Originally posted by chenko
    Lindows, to put it lightly, is utter ****, there is nothing special about it, all they WERE going to do was implement Wine closer and trying and make it look like windows, how pointless trying to make an OS look like the ****est OS on the planet.

    I did notice that kasracer, I would have paid $10 to get the boxed version for the hell of it (try and sell it on ebay etc ) but it would have cost $70 delivery :/



    Learning linux on the likes of redhat is phaff, you dont just jump into a GUI and go... OMFG IM USING LINUX, I R TEH LEET0R

    start with gentoo, for beginners and the advanced
    I like using Linux as a development platform, but I don't want to work with it without a GUI - why should one do that? "Leeeett'ssss seee, I COULD do it the easy way using a GUI, but that isn't half as cool as being a h4x0R and using... the TERMINAL!" <-- If you get my point...
    "Lies, sanctions, and cruise missiles have never created a free and just society. Only everyday people can do that."
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    Originally posted by vbNeo
    I like using Linux as a development platform, but I don't want to work with it without a GUI - why should one do that? "Leeeett'ssss seee, I COULD do it the easy way using a GUI, but that isn't half as cool as being a h4x0R and using... the TERMINAL!" <-- If you get my point...
    Im not saying dont use a GUI, im saying that stuff like redhat and mandrake installs sucks.
    I use a GUI with gentoo, I use a GUI nearly all the time with a terminal emulator for command line when I need it.

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    Originally posted by chenko
    Im not saying dont use a GUI, im saying that stuff like redhat and mandrake installs sucks.
    I use a GUI with gentoo, I use a GUI nearly all the time with a terminal emulator for command line when I need it.
    My apologies then =)
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    Originally posted by kasracer

    Lindows has a better packaging system than Mandrake and Redhat combined. You click on a program out of thousands and BOOM, it's installed! It's similar to mandrake, but is alot easier to use and has better driver support.

    But still, Gentoo > *
    I thought the Lindows click-install was a subscription service, that you had to pay $50 a year for.

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    Originally posted by nemaroller
    I thought the Lindows click-install was a subscription service, that you had to pay $50 a year for.
    I got a coupon for Lindows and I think it comes with the subscription for a year. I downloaded it but I don't feel like install it.

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    click-install

    pah

    Emerge the world!

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