Xandros users not too happy about Microsoft deal
I got this comment on my Xandros-Microsoft editorial from a gentleman who left the name Bruce Layne (could be real, who knows?), and it's worth repeating here:
I purchased all four major releases of Xandros, starting with 1.0, and all the Premium versions when available. I received help from the great Xandros user forum and it was a real community. I paid it forward by helping others. I felt like I was contributing to a viable commercial alternative to Windows and the Microsoft monopoly. Now, after four and a half years, I learn it was a lie.
I'm currently installing PCLinuxOS 2007 on my computer and my wife's computer, and so far it looks better than the latest version of Xandros. http://www.pclinuxos.com
Overnight, I went from being a big advocate for Xandros to abandoning them after they stabbed me in the back. The programmers are good, it's apparently just some greedy executives who sold out the company, employees and users for a chunk of Microsoft monopoly money.
Lots more comments at forums.xandros.com, under Off Topic.
I've heard good things about PCLinux ... and I hope the transition goes smoothly. Before you commit, why not do a bit of distro hopping? Ubuntu, Debian (I recommend their desktop install very highly), Mepis -- and just about anything else near the top of Distrowatch, even Fedora, which just released a new version.
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I know what you mean. I dumped OpenSuse for exactly the same reason. Linux is suppose to be a refuge from Microsoft!
Right now I'm using Ubuntu Studio 7.04 at home, and 7.04 Feisty on my laptop, and I'm slowly building it up to the point where I can dump Windows altogether.
The only reason the Evil Empire of Redmond is making these moves is because Vista is such a dog. All you have to do is look at it to see that this is what Linux would be if they got their hooks into it: Overpriced, buggy and completely worthless. I mean, how good can an OS be if it crashes even after being left alone doing nothing for ten minutes?
Posted by: Larry Wilson | June 6, 2007 7:46 AM
A small but righteous correction. It's PCLinuxOS and not PCLinux. I've been using it for over two years now. I used Ubuntu 4.07 (I think) but still try every release (on VirtualBox) and other distros of course. IMHO, PCLinuxOS is better for me.
Hope Bruce Layne and anyone else trying it would see the good side of this fine Linux distro.
Posted by: Archie | June 7, 2007 6:37 AM