It's a nice distro. I like Xandros.
"It's a nice distro. I like Xandros."
OK, you're a tech head, right? I mean, it's fine for Xandros to say that non-technical people want a product they can take out of the box and use, the way they use Windows. Of course they do, but Xandros isn't really such a product, is it?
I like Xandros, too. It's probably the best Windows alternative I've ever used. I've used Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Linspire, Corel Linux OS, Mac OS 7, and Xandros. Xandros works like a charm. I have iTunes (using Crossover Office) and the latest versions of Mozilla, Firefox, and Thunderbird installed on there. I also have GAIM and K3B installed as well (I like GAIM better than Kopete, and I like K3B better than the built-in disc burning tool in Xandros File Manager).
Now what I'm about to say may sound like a kooky conspiracy theory, but my opinion is that there are global elites who want to tell you what OS you can and cannot have on your own computers. You know Gates wants to rule the computer world and he will use any means necessary to achieve that goal. Remember that DRM bill Fritz Hollings introduced back in 2000? It would have mandated DRM technology in all electronics and all software, including computer operating systems, and since GNU/Linux is against DRM, it would have made Linux illegal. Makes me wonder if Gates contributed money to Hollings' campaign funds. And I also got an email from somebody who claimed to have worked in the DoD, and they said the DoD actually "looks unfavorable at people who use open source operating systems". Hmmm....maybe all those security flaws in Windows are deliberately put in there so Big Brother can watch you while you compute.
Then you have Apple introducing Boot Camp which lets people install Windows XP on Intel-based Macs. What if a lot of people get Intel Macs and install Windows on their computers and use Windows instead of Mac OS X? If that happens, Apple might say "since nobody's using Mac OS X, we're going to abandon OS X and have Windows pre-installed". And then what if Apple later on changes the Mac hardware to prevent not only the Intel-based Mac OS X from being installed on future Macs but also Linux from being installed on Intel-based Macs?
What if in the future the internet or Internet2 prevents computers with non-Windows OSes from getting online? If that time ever comes, that will be the day when I no longer use the internet.
I hope more and more people start using Linux or Mac OS X because a Windows-only world would be a hellhole.