On 01/13/2014 10:32 AM, WestHurley ComputerReCycling wrote:
any positive or negative comments.
All I know is what I just read on DistroWatch, so my opinion is worth,
at most, two centibucks.
A distro that depends on a nonstandard package manager is a Bad Idea for
a general-use PC. If the app you want doesn't appear in YPK, then you're
sunk without a trace; ordinary users should not be forced into Yet
Another Layer of Misdirection.
Looks like most of the StartOS support info is in Chinese, but maybe I'm
not looking in the right places.
A bit of rummaging produced this out-of-date overview:
http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2009/12/26/chinese-copy-cat-pirates-launch-ubuntu-that-looks-just-like-windows-xp/
I'd say StartOS doesn't have any compelling advantages (other than a
skin-deep resemblance to XP) over, say, Lubuntu:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu
The trouble with "it looks just like XP" distros is that, at heart,
they're *not* XP: very little that users learned from XP carries over to
the actual programs behind those shiny icons. Rather than explaining why
this-and-that doesn't work "right", explain how to use the
new-and-different programs and be done with it.
--
Ed
softsolder.com
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