Reply #7: Yeah, I had it briefly [View All]

[ldoolin]

Switched to Red Hat pretty quick though.

The problem with Lindows is the distribution is very bare-bones, i.e. it doesn't include such vital Linux packages as gcc, which you need to install just about any other program, and installing gcc from scratch is more trouble than it's worth.

Lindows also comes with no office software or much else, except the bare minimum Internet software such as Netscape. Lindows instead wants you to pay to use their download service to download new packages, which is also more trouble than it's worth at 56k. It was cheaper and a lot faster to buy a Red Hat distribution and install it, which comes with everything you will ever need, than it would have been to download the stuff one by one from the Lindows site. I'd avoid it.

On edit: But what the heck, if it's free give it a try.