anyone tried lindows/lispire OS?

Just recently i came to know that theres this OS called Lindows/linspire. Basing on the screenshot they gave on their site, it's pretty cool.

so i'm thinking of trying it as seperate OS. But before i do that i want to get some advice from trusted experts of this forum. What do you think of this OS? Is this another garbage OS trying to compete with windows and mac?

THanks for advise.

here is the site for lindows:
http://www.linspire.com/

 

This question would probably be better suited to the linux forum.

Linspire is one of the many linux distros aimed towards users new to linux/unix, and it's desktop is designed to help ease the transition for people moving from Windows.

Before you spend the cash on the retail version you may want to look at Freespire, linked to from the Linspire site, to see if it's suitable for your needs.

 

I've heard Linspire manages to give you the unreliability of windows, with all the added hassle of linux. If you want a user-friendly (and free) linux distro, I'd go with Ubuntu. But then again, I've never tried linux at all, it's just what I've heard.

 

Linspire is a linux distro that is sold because they know people will say: "hey this looks like windows, but its not! i will give it a try, who knows maybe this will work better" but the true fact is, if you want something other that windows go with linux. I personally use arch linux, which is not user friendly at all, but Ubuntu or even fedora are good starter distros

 

Ubuntu, Fedora, Red Hat, and Open SUSE are 100% user friendly as they have easy to navigate GUIs.

 

Added hassle???

But yeah, I've only heard bad things about Linspire, haven't heard much about Freespire though. Apparetnly you have to pay for program updates and other such nonsense.

 

man@!!... don't like this thing..... sigh

 

any distro that is wifi ready intel bg2200 ? i installed mandriva 2007 and fc6 its gonna take a while to set that drivers bla bla .. it's been 3 yrs or so last time i used linux so i dont want to go back to linux 101

 

I believe that Ubuntu (6.06, not sure about 6.10) had Intel 3945 wifi drivers installed out of the box. There was a post from a guy who's machine automagically located his neighbour's router and started downloading updates before he noticed...

 

Yeah, it works fine out of the box with unsecured networks (6.06.1 and up), and you have to install network-manager to allow WPA functionality.

qohelet, would you be kind enough as to elaborate as to why you don't like it? I would love to hear another users opinion.