On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 13:44, Donn Washburn wrote:
Care to straighten this Guy out?
Why? I've heard horror stories about Linux on IBM thinkpads, most of them old, he couldn't find the correct modules for a NIC and had fun with 3 video cards (on a laptop?). A number of distro's but he doesn't say if he tried either Lindows or Xandros. As for the copy\cut and paste problem? Some familiarity with the GUI would help, and I don't run Windows without a copy of clipboard magic, which brings things up to klipper standards. His fun installing stuff is interesting, I've had fun in both Linux and Windows installing software. Hands down a nice installer is to die for, but if the program won't tolerate you making changes to what it wants as the defaults (e.g. McAfee AV or tools) what good is the installer or the software. Best installer for Linux that I've used is Loki's, and the commercial software that I've bought and installed for Linux has been a snap, i.e. Loki Games and Sun's Star Office 5.2, shortcuts and everything. :) Mike