On Thu, Dec 26, 2024 at 12:27 PM Jim via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

The writer of that article says he learned more about it and can no longer recommend it. The headline now reads:

Why I no longer recommend this Windows-like Linux distro

On 12/11/24 11:28, Arun Khan via PLUG-discuss wrote:

I came across a ZDNET article

"This Linux distro is so Windows-like, it even comes with Microsoft apps"

<https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-linux-distro-is-so-windows-like-it-even-comes-with-microsoft-apps/>

Perhaps, this is the Linux distro to help you (your colleague) to a Linux OS based desktop

Hosted at SourceForge -- download link:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/windows-ubuntu/

Thanks for the heads up. You beat me to it.

I took it for a spin (Vbox VM) and found out about the purchase of a "license key" to unlock the "Windows apps" during the installation process.

I contacted the support team on some other issue -- the ISO shasum is only sha1sum and the GPG keys are missing v/s every other Linux distro uses sha256sum and provides the GPG keys to authenticate the shasums.

I am sticking to Kubuntu / Lubuntu / Mint :)

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Arun Khan