I tried it too, looked great, then was surprised by the pop-up. I don't mind when people are upfront with the terms. But after doing all the setup and then notifying me you want money. Instant reformat disk!!


On Thu, Dec 26, 2024, 1:42 PM Arun Khan via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:


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"

Perhaps, this is the Linux distro to help you (your colleague) to a Linux OS based desktop 
Hosted at SourceForge -- download link:
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
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