New linux based OS

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Linspire, costs 50 bucks, is just an ordinary Linux with windows-like interface. There are plenty of free linux distros that also has interface similiar to windows. With Linux, almost anything is free!
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yes. linspire is just another Linux distribution, but with some extra attention to making it less scary for windows users. it doesn't use a "traditional windows platform," (not sure exactly what that is), and whatever compatibility it has with MS products can be replicated with any other distribution.

that said, if you like it and feel comfortable using it, go right ahead - any Linux distribution is superior to MS - just know there are lots of alternatives:

http://distrowatch.com/
 
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yes. linspire is just another Linux distribution, but with some extra attention to making it less scary for windows users...
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I think there was a time - like when I was training new windows users back in 1993 - that the concept of a GUI was new for a lot of corporate people.

Today, its old news and nearly everyone is comfortable with multiple GUI interfaces and I would venture to say that for nearly 90% or more of computer users the idea of learning a new GUI requires no training and just a minimal amount of time to master ......
 
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Today, its old news and nearly everyone is comfortable with multiple GUI interfaces and I would venture to say that for nearly 90% or more of computer users the idea of learning a new GUI requires no training and just a minimal amount of time to master ......
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system administration, obviously, differs, but from the point of view of the end user, some of the the current desktop environments such as KDE are indistinguishable from MS, in terms of features and functionality.

http://www.kde.org/screenshots/
 
Not only Linux guys are trying to design their interface to looks similiar to that of Windows, but hilariously they also make use the term "window" that brought up by Microsoft at first place. Remember that MS Windows means containing more than one window.
 
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Not only Linux guys are trying to design their interface to looks similar to that of Windows, but hilariously they also make use the term "window" that brought up by Microsoft at first place. Remember that MS Windows means containing more than one window.
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BG deserves respect, but most of his "original ideas" came from other's that he either paid for or stole... DOS, the mouse, and yes even "windows"... etc. BG's best attribute is business, and certainly not innovative ideas.
 
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Not only Linux guys are trying to design their interface to looks similiar to that of Windows, but hilariously they also make use the term "window" that brought up by Microsoft at first place. Remember that MS Windows means containing more than one window.
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You are seriously misinformed if you believe MS invented the windowing GUI, or even produced the first commercial implementation. The original research work was done by Xerox and the the first PC style device was the Apple Lisa (Jan '83). The first incarnation of X (The predominant UNIX windowing system) was in 1984. GEM from Digital Research also dates from 1984. As with much that has come from Microsoft, there was nothing very original about MS Windows.

The success of MS Windows came from the fact that it ran on cheap hardware (IBM compatible) rather than having any real merit it its own right and the incompetence of Digital Research in marketing GEM. A little later the UNIX wars did no service to UNIX as a possible desktop contender. All versions of Windows prior to NT are completely laughable compared to contemporary versions of UNIX.
 
The most noticable reason that Linux or Unix cannot win Windows in desktop world is because the installation of most program doesn't make sense to human! (instructions say open up terminal, run the shell/perl script). After the installation, "where are the installed programs?" most people say. Later on, "where can I uninstall this thing?" :D

Are users being stupid or developers being careless?
 
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The most noticable reason that Linux or Unix cannot win Windows in desktop world is because the installation of most program doesn't make sense to human! (instructions say open up terminal, run the shell/perl script). After the installation, "where are the installed programs?" most people say. Later on, "where can I uninstall this thing?" :D

Are users being stupid or developers being careless?
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It seems you like all plug N play. Best to not expand your mind/horizons, huh.
 
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The most noticable reason that Linux or Unix cannot win Windows in desktop world is because the installation of most program doesn't make sense to human! (instructions say open up terminal, run the shell/perl script). After the installation, "where are the installed programs?" most people say. Later on, "where can I uninstall this thing?" :D

Are users being stupid or developers being careless?
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You clearly aren't aware of the Linux software packaging systems such as employed by Debian, RedHat, Fedora, Suse etc etc. Linux software packaging is not perfect and neither is Windows with the abomination that is called the Registry being mangled by all sorts of malware at will.

There are some very good reasons why a lot of open source software is distrubted as source. One is portability ie the ability to run on different operating systems and processors. Installation of most software distributed as source requires the mind bogglingly difficult sequence of commands

# ./configure
# make
# make install

Most humans believe it or not can manage this.
 
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