Lindows OS
Lindows OS
(OP)
I am considering changing my OS, and have recently heard about Lindows, which supposedly uses the Linux kernel but has a windows type interface in addition to being able to use windows file types. Do any of you have any experience or information about this issue?






RE: Lindows OS
There are two issues with this notion:
1) Ease of user operation when switching from machine to machine. If you always do your work only on one machine or only with one OS, then there is no big issue. If your home machine is one and work is another, then you'd need to learn two, possibly, quite different programs and/or user interfaces.
2) While file formats are often claimed to be compatible, I've rarely found that to be 100% true. If you need to share documents with people running Windows, you may run into problems.
TTFN
RE: Lindows OS
I have never used Lindows. But I have used Gnome and KDE and I can tell you that the mainstream Linux environments (like what Redhat includes) look very much like windows. The hard part is downloading all of the drivers for your system and some things need to be performed in command line.
RE: Lindows OS