Re: XP is garbage



Chris Carlen wrote:

>The different distros all have
>their own way of doing things, so no apps work the same across all of
>them. They customize the vanilla apps such as OpenOffice and Mozilla to
>integrate with their desktop and config tools, so you can't upgrade the
>apps with drop in packages direct from the originating projects.

You just haven't looked in the right place. There is a Linux distribution
that never customizes apps - they are exactly as they would be if you
got them from the author and did a default install.

See [ http://www.slackware.com ].

>Each version gets worse, in direct proportion to how much more
>"smart" it tries to be. I am considering going back to Slackware
>with which I started 9 years ago, but I can't afford another 1-2
>months of tinkering to get it all set up.

I know the feeling; back then Slackware needed a lot or twaeking.
The latest version installs and runs with a minimum of tinkering.

>And no matter what I do, more and more of the web sites that I simply
>must use to run my life, have show stopping quirks or issues unless IE
>is used. Or even more depressingly, they work with an alternative
>browser such as Firefox on Windows, but not on Linux.

Alas, you are right. I still keep a Windows 200 box on my local
network to run IE and PowerBASIC. :(



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