Anyone else here remember LindowsOS (later changed its name to Linspire)?<p>In the early 2000's (around the time of the article), they were trying to get point and click simplicity for installing software (which even back then was abundant in Linux). I remember a few others distros, like Mandriva (Mandrake at the time) had graphical package managers. There were others.<p>To anyone who's curious and feels like giving old Linux distros a try, <a href="https://old-linux.com/" rel="nofollow">https://old-linux.com/</a> is a good resource. Unfortunately I can't find any mirrors of repos with packages that go back to 1998 and early 2000's.
Last week I was sitting in an undergraduate lecture hall with hundreds of students. I looked back at their laptops and it was a sea of Apple logos.<p>We've traded one monopoly for another.
I've been looking to "upgrade" my OSX laptop to Linux and on a whole have been disappointed by the hardware build quality on the Linux machines.<p>What I really want is a thin and light unibody aluminum frame and high density screen on a Linux machine. But since I can't find that, OS X is a nice substitute.<p>Edit: Thank you for the suggestions everyone.
I'm guessing in the ensuing 14 years this offering did not continue. I wouldn't know; I'm part of the generation that swore off buying software or computers at Wal-Mart when they were selling Duke Nukem 3D with the parental control option permanently turned on.
Wasn't this about the same price-point as eMachines (sans Linux)?<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMachines" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMachines</a>
I bought SuSE Linux at Best Buy 15 years ago. This was before I had a fast-enough internet connection to download it. I remember there were a few other distros available as well.