Linsprie is doing their customers good. They don’t want to download and compile program, or go through dependency hell, they just want to install them with few clicks.

I’d rather pay few bucks for a nice service (like Click’n'Run) then waste MY time (TIME = MOMENY) in compiling some half baked open source application.

Btw, I’m SUSE Pro user, I don’t use Linspire, but I don’t understand all this rage about this.

In an intruiging twist on his normal business plan, he has now alienated /only/ three people in the latest move, all of whom mumbled something about linux games being the way forward, then dropping into incoherent rambling about YAUT2k.

Other Linux users, our apparent token “gamer” group, mentioned linux gaming already being dead, mostly through intense marketing and disinformation efforts by “Open-Source” company Transgaming with lead Gav “Look at my hat” State. Prime factors in their arguments appear to include repeated use of the letters “O”, “S”, and “X”, reflecting the new up-and-coming group of Linux users, who nowadays appreciate the Sesame Street nature of modern linux distributions.

Gary (-;

games in wineX we all know are flakey PERIOD.
linspire can’t handle something as simple as apt-get install blah without breaking itself

so you tell me…is it a good marriage..id say they deserve each other and trust me I wont be using EITHER….

native games ALL THE WAY….or have your forgotten your roots ??

also..I think its high time LINSPIRE fessed up and proved ‘why’ its safe from any SCO lawsuits!!!!!

ta ;-)!

WineX has better win16 support, meaning it did not break in its development, as opposed to Wine’s current win16 support.

And I have one thing good to say about Lindows…
The developers that have created Lindows understand the meaning of KISS: in effect, Lindows is easiest to use next to {K/G}noppix; the greatest desktop assembly for a single-user personal computer.

That is all.