I've absolutely had it with Windoze 98 SE, and I want to slowly migrate away from it, and so I was wondering which of the different flavours of Linux would be the easiest for a "Newbie" Like myself? I want one that is very, very user friendly, and that is very, very easy to install. I have been sort of eyeing Lindows, but it isn't ready yet, and someone mentioned Mandrake Linux, but I have thus far been unsuccessful at getting any help whatsoever from Mandrake, and I am really confused as to what to download. I would appreciate any help, so I can get rid of this bloody, blue screen of death, OS.
Just one more thing, I had written a letter to the editor of this site, and I know that he's busy, so I thought I would include it so that everyone can see why I want to do my migration to another OS.
Thanks in advance for any help:)
Hello,
Because of your listings of other operating systems, I will be doing
a gradual migration over to, probably, "Lindows," as I've absolutely
had it with Windows!
I have read about how "draconian" that they are about their products,
but I really didn't understand anything about that until I purchased
their "Intellimouse Explorer Mouse." I updated the driver for it, and
during the installation there was a screen that asked me if I wanted
the software to check for updates automatically. I like to be in
control of my computer, and I also like to have only the basics
running in the background, so that my systems resources aren't being
used up, so I unchecked the box to not have it check for updates, and
every time....I repeat, every time when I click the next button to go
to the next screen I always see it suddenly rechecking again! I
thought I was just seeing things, but later on I had it confirmed
that it was indeed trying to check for an update by ZoneAlarm
alerting me of it.
I tried to contact Microsoft about this, but I can't seem to find a
contact e-mail for just a general question, and I'm not going to go
through their passport crap just to ask why the software is doing
this.
Why the hell would they have posed the question to check for updates
if it they were going to ignore my wishes in the first place? All I
can think of is that it is for show, or I think that it is a rather
sneaky way for them to check up on me, and I'm not going to stand for
it, so what I've done is re-installed to older driver for it. It is
much more unstable, but at least it's not doing something that I
don't want it to do. (other than crashing)
I think that it's high time that I started my migration away from
this "blue screen of death, buggy Operating System (Windows 98 SE),"
and try something that isn't as invasive, or draconian, so as soon as
Lindows is finally ready for the general public, then I will be a
brand new customer, and I will continue to be one as long as they
live up to what they are claiming.
"FUCK MICROSOFT!!!!" These are words that everyone should have in
their vocabulary! Thanks for enlightening me as to other
alternatives, and also information that these fuckers don't want me
to know about.
Sincerely,
1mck
