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Originally Posted by Taft
I'm a Linux user, but please lose the elitist attitude. This is a Windows users forum, and you're recommending the most beginner-unfriendly distros of them all. Linspire is meant to be familiar to Windows users and would be a good starting point (Fedora or Ubuntu would also be excellent as well as free)
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True, but I suspect it is really a PC-inspired Forum - and that just happens to be WIndows because that's history.
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Linux has a long way to go principally IMHO because it's not got a knuckle-brained boss shouting orders through to the dev boys ( I paint an improbably picture of a small software house).
/Most folk, that includes me, want to use a PC for a simple enough purpose and pouring over the entrails of a dead sea-monster isn't one of them. I expect the software to recognise my equipment and sort itself out so eveything just goes. If I stick to main-stream products that are say a year or two old the necessary drivers should be in place. I accept that something that's cutting-edge or from a special manufacturer may have furhe work needed. But if I designed a wall-printer (one that climbs about/over the wall spotting ink the consistancy of whitewash ), unless I want to create a lot of software I'd ensure it had a pretty common interface - like an Epson Graphical input - or else I'd have to supply the drivers for Win98SE and above (and that should include Linux, why not?)
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Lindows, (now called something else, but we'll never forget the original name as it seems so sensible)... is a costly version of Linux, IMHO - but I suspect the hope is that, because it works so well. folk will welcome using it so they keep paying........proof needed? - Just see if it survives - for me it seems neither one thing nor't'other so I'm with Ubuntu (Linux) which is practically free and comes with some good stuff - at least.... if I had the time to lose my Windows98SE - because this works well enough and it prints out what work I do - so why change?
Well Windows 98SE is soon to disapear becasue new software writers don't support it - so new fancy programs need something better (more costly!).. To avoid this, I might as well migrate to Linux - although I have to say I'm impressed with some of their applications there is considerable work needed to get it mainstream - IMHO it just isn't fit to work "out of the box" - but that doesn't mean it is rubbish, nor does it mean it's flawed - it is the mind-set of the people distributing Linux that needs to change - they have been faffing about 10 years or more (it seems) and.... even now it is like buying a car and finding there is a small lathe in the boot (US-trunk), so you can make some adaptors ..... so the seats fit properly - really!
and if you look further there is a set of pipe-benders, shoved up the exhaust - essential kit, if you need to add a fuel filter, change the aircon etc. etc.
RegardsH
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