Re: XP is garbage

In <1113268990.624221.62420@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, on 04/11/05
at 06:23 PM, "JeffM" <jeffm_@xxxxxxxxx> said:

>>Lindows ain't too bad...Just like with any linux,
>>you have to create a new user once its installed,
>>or you are root, and as you say, insecure as can be.
>> JB (learning @ learning.com)
>>
>I read about it on Slashdot and about choked on my beverage
>when it said that it didn't put the new user (owner) in a sandbox where
>he had to create a user account with reduced permissions before it would
>let him at the system.

Not true at all.

>OS X pops up sudo dialogs for priviledged tasks.
>It seems that Apple is getting it right.

Then by a Mac for pete's sake.

>>its no better, no worse than most other distros.
>>It is a bit nicer, having some names make sense
>>
>Yeah. I thought that was interesting--rename all the apps
>so when you go to a real *n?x box, nothing works the same.

Hey Jeff, I used it. I have no idea what slashdot is talking about. Making
users is exactly the same process as it is on any linux box.

There are not differently named apps. The difference is there is a task
manager already there, rather than digging it out, and a few other
utilities that most windows users are used to having handy in a lame
attempt to make the switch less painful.

There is no such thing a a real *nux box anymore, as they are ALL
different. Apps don't work across the board, they have to be compiled for
the specific distro and often become unusable when the next revision hits.
Its all quite a joke, and most laughable.

As was said at the front of this linux stuff, Linux is splintered, and has
no future outside of the hard core hacker willing to invest hundreds of
hours every time a new distro hits. I ain't touting it. I have tried at
least a dozen apps, and the only thing that sucks more than linux itself
is the people who live and die by it, and go ballistic when you say
anything negative about it.<shrug> Others enjoy it, so I posted what I had
actually seen by using it, not just some quotes from a microsoft loving
web site.

JB
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