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Old January 31st, 2002   #7 (permalink)
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Lindows is nothing more than a stock distro with a pretty installer, renamed shortcuts, settings importation, and a custom WINE build.

It has nothing you couldn't run/install on any other Linux distribution. Heck, it's custom WINE can pop right into any other one just fine. And that's about all it's good for.

As for games, I don't know if Lindows will include WineX, but of course, you can just grab it yourself, or install a distro that has it.

Lindows is not for the reluctant-to-try-something-else Windows user at all. Those users should stick to Windows, or just try a normal distribution. Lindows offers nothing super-exclusive, and is relatively useless unless installed alongside Windows a la BeOS.
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