Original von dimitri
Hi,
Lindows is not very popular in the community. Every other Distributor provides code to the community has KDE,Gnome, Kernel or what ever developers.
But not Lindows. The haven't provided a single line of code as far as I know. They only take. They had a struggle with CodeWeavers, because they changed WINE (a a API to run Windows programs) and didn't gave the code back as the GPL claims.
Well new user don't know about that, but the 'old' ones do.
Lindows does not work with the community but even against it, in my oppinion.
Dim
Just my speech! Lindows is just a "wine-enhanced" Linux-OS. But what really sucks in my opinion is Click'n' run. WHY do I have to pay for the GIMP, for example? It's GPL'ed, so why pay?
Everything runs as root (I know you can change it, but who else?), and that scraps most security measures. I have nothing against Users of Lindows, I just say Lindows os somewhat a really STRANGE and frightening Distri, since it doesn't seem to have learned from M$ failures. It's just somewhat not Linux anymore...no GPL, no open Source...that's just not what it was meant to be.