men.... feck linux!

[pixie]

I've installed Linux and a FreeBSD and from an user POV they are severly lacking in UI issues, badly!!! If not because some good programs namely for Internet and AmigaOS surelly kicks both of their arses!

More the problems I had with them, I still can't put my xp partition to boot.

I know that Linux is user friendly et all, it only is picky with its friends, but friends like this I want nothin at all, vive l'AROS, vive MorphOS vive l'AmigaOS, cos they still kick some arses (major ones icluded)!!

[HopperJF]

pixie wrote:


I know that Linux is user friendly et all

It is!?  :-?

[mikeymike]

As in, neither Linux or FreeBSD have a UI (other than a command line)? :-)

[cecilia]

use another distro. I have Red Hat on my laptop. multiboot easy.

[HopperJF]

They're just kernels, sarge

[pixie]

they have but they (gnome kde) suck badly at it and as for installation, yeck!

[fx]

I don't think AmigaOS is much more user friendly than Linux to someone who has never used it before.

[pixie]

linux community usually says about its user friendlyness:
'Linux is user friendly... It's just picky when choosing it's friends'
I can't say they're wrong but... I don't have to be his either! :-P

[pixie]

Maybe I had bad luck on installation, but an OS shouldn't be so bloated... heck! I had about the same time or more then installing XP!
but my grief is on graphical interface

[pixie]

au contraire... Windows borrows many things from AmigaOS or use the same patterns of usage, wherever... the linux isn't and isn't exactly great on the new things...

MUI has much more configurability then any of those (I was rather intriged with enlightment but couldn't set it to use...)

On Amiga you install (or at least on pre 3.1) graphically, whereas here you dont' (well neither the XP but we all know how good microsoft is)

[Failure]

Hmm.  Maybe you would like this:

http://www.lysator.liu.se/~marcus/amiwm.html

Hasn't been updated since '98, but Debian (at least) maintains a current package.  I tried it once but I rather prefer Windowmaker.

--
Failure

[HopperJF]

fx wrote:
I don't think AmigaOS is much more user friendly than Linux to someone who has never used it before.

You're kidding?
I got my first Amiga in '99 and it was incredibly straightforward.
I was using it fine in a matter of minutes.
Linux took months of headaches, and I just gave up.
Sure, I could learn it all by "reading the {bleep}ing manual" and so on, but I dont want to read a manual for ages to learn how to do something as simple as use an operating system.

Operating systems should be simple, after all its just something for you to run programs on.
Anyone who thinks differently needs hitting over the head with a unix manual, because they are just limiting the amount of people who can use computers, or indeed be bothered to use computers.

[mikeymike]

AmigaOS has always been incredibly straight-forward in my opinion, though it may be a complete PITA for users of higher-end Amigas that have had more hardware hacks than original hardware left in them :-)

[Speelgoedmannetje]

Man, Linux sucks big time.
I use Mandrake 9.2. The gui is dog slow on my Pentium II 350 + 128 mb mem + ATI Radeon 9200! Okay, it doesn't recognise my video card but surely, on standard vesa 1024*768 mode, it should run fine, shouldn't it?
I mean, win 3.11 works flawlessly at a resolution of 640*480 on my 386 laptop!
and btw. AmigaOS is way much more user friendly than Linux.
I firstly used MSDOS, so I am not biased.

[The_Editor]

So whats wrong with Kde ?  I think its kewl.. And apparently,  so does my brother in law.  He's just spent over £1200 on pc "Bitz"  (Athlon 64 Msi mobo etc) and wants ME to install Debian on his new 200gb drive. Along with Win2Kpro   (he's dumping XP)

He was VERY impressed with the debian distro thats running on my A1