Looking foe distro that looks like windows...
 

I saw some screenshots of a Linux distro about a month ago that looked just like windows down to the taskmanager and start button.. But now I can't find it anywhere... does anybody know of the distro I'm speaking of?

Lycoris ?

use windows manager iceWM.

Redmond Linux is the only one I can think of.


I didn't think that existed anymore though...

Might have been Lindows as well..

But whey would you want something that looks like Windows, just use Windows for that matter.. ;)

Could it have been Xandros?

or Lindows?

I agree with XavierP - Lindows, although i haven't tried it yet...

http://www.xpde.com/
http://www.xpde.com/shots/deskprop.jpg

Installed fine on debian/sid - have not tried it on my redhat8 testbox.

It pretty much feels as if you are using windows.

it workd on redhat too but its not so stable. crashed lot os times when testing.

I saw one where someone had used some de and he had copied the start button and everything. I can't remember whereI saw it, but I think it was on the old lno site.

I don't know why someone would do that though. I like my computer to have a cooler wm/desktop than Microsoft's sucky look.

fancy,

the purpose of xpde is to help windows users that are transfer to the linux desktop. not to replace the 31337 black/flux/openbox windowmanagers =)

The screenshot looks very similar to what I had seen except he had also made the start button look just like the one Windows uses.

When I moved to Linux, having different looking desktops was very exciting. Then I discovered you could just run a wm if you wished and have a mysterious, blank desktop. :cool:

Why copy a failure to enhance the Linux transition? I just don't get it. :confused: Just jump in. The water is fine!

If Linux had looked and acted like Windows, I would have ditched it and installed freebsd or something else.

Think of a small nonprofit that wants to buy 5 linux computers. They want email, word processing and web browsing. They use linux because the m$ negatives. Forced upgrades coming, virus problems from email attachment or screensavers downloaded or games being downloaded from the net.

They just want the damn computers to work and not lockup 4 or 5 times a day. These workers probably will not be too interested in blackbox. =)

I still don't understand what is wrong with using either any of the stable DEs or WMs that work well with a distro.

As far as just a WM, I could teach then that the right-click button on the mouse has a purpose. You can set up the 3 menu items you want to use. What could be more simple and idiot proof?