Looking foe distro that looks like windows...

Thaidog · 05-02-2003, 01:23 AM

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?

markus1982 · 05-02-2003, 02:21 AM

Lycoris ?

mayankjohri · 05-02-2003, 02:23 AM

use windows manager iceWM.

rmartine · 05-02-2003, 01:39 PM

Redmond Linux is the only one I can think of.

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

trickykid · 05-02-2003, 01:45 PM

Might have been Lindows as well..

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

Streams · 05-02-2003, 06:15 PM

Could it have been Xandros?

XavierP · 05-02-2003, 06:25 PM

or Lindows?

jt1020 · 05-07-2003, 01:17 PM

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

macewan · 05-08-2003, 12:56 AM

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.

nakkaya · 05-08-2003, 11:33 AM

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

fancypiper · 05-08-2003, 11:44 AM

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.

macewan · 05-08-2003, 11:52 AM

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 =)

fancypiper · 05-08-2003, 12:07 PM

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.

Why copy a failure to enhance the Linux transition? I just don't get it.

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.

macewan · 05-08-2003, 12:20 PM

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. =)

fancypiper · 05-08-2003, 12:24 PM

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?