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prospectacle writes about another possible shift from Win XP to Linux:
"With Microsoft ceasing to support Windows XP, the Tamil Nadu state government has advised its departments to switch to Bharat Operating System Solutions, also known as BOSS Linux.
BOSS Linux is developed by India's "National Resource Centre for Free/Open Source Software", which is financed by their Ministry of Communication and Information Technology. BOSS supports national languages including Bengali, Telugu, and Tamil.
Why would you develop your own entire operating system when you can just buy the newest version from Microsoft?"
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by e_armadillo on Monday March 24 2014, @02:18PM
Why would you develop your own entire operating system when you can just buy the newest version from Microsoft?"
Have you tried to use Windows 8.1?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 24 2014, @06:29PM
The world has tried Windows 8 and are wondering why this Linux thing is so foreign. Next stop: The year of Desktop Linux
(Score: 1, Redundant) by Snotnose on Monday March 24 2014, @07:45PM
Once you spend several hours figuring out how to get around Metro (install a real start button, boot to desktop, change associations away from Metro apps, etc) it's a very nice OS. Rock solid and fast. And now that I've done it once I could get a new laptop de-Metro'd in a couple hours.
People equate Metro with Win8.1. Metro is a steaming pile of crap sitting on top of a nice shiney object. Clean the crap off it and you have a nice shiney object.
(Score: 1) by e_armadillo on Monday March 24 2014, @08:10PM
I will take your word for it, but I am not willing to shell out several hours to retool the interface of an operating system that I paid for. I did plenty of that in years gone by playing with "enlightenment" on my old Linux Boxes. I just want an OS I can use and not have to fuss with it. I guess I am getting old . . .
(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Monday March 24 2014, @08:29PM
It took me several hours because A) I decided to try the kool-aid; and B) I had to figure out what to do. So...
1) Don't try to like Metro. It sucks.
2) Install classic shell.
3) Configure it to boot to desktop.
4) Install the programs you like (Irfanview, Vim, etc)
5) Change file associations to use your programs, instead of the apps.
That's it. Be prepared to get hit with a Metro app every once in a while (yesterday I discovered it was still configured to use a Metro app for a .gif file), but it's a few seconds work to fix.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 25 2014, @12:14AM
Take take a subject who has only used Windoze 7.
Define a task e.g. access a web page, locate a paragraph of text, insert that into a document and save it.
Have him do this on Tiles8 and time it.
Repeat with the same subject using Linux Mint or ZorinOS.
Compare numbers.
Any guesstimates on the outcome?
-- gewg_