Windows

An Alternative To Windows

Posted by on May 18, 2007 | 3 Comments

Gnomie Bob Littell writes:

Chris, I fully sympathize with your frustration with Windows. I have felt this way about Microsoft since the mid-nineties. I heartily suggest you go to linspire.com and test Linspire and its CNR (“Click and Run”) feature which automatically downloads many free and some “pay-for” applications and immediately installs the application for immediate use. You can set up this OS in a dual-boot configuration. You can also purchase a CDROM from which you can run the OS without ANY changes to your existing system.

Linspire has now setup CNR on a new Web site to allow this automatic feature to be used by other flavors of Linux. In my opinion, this is the most beneficial and inexpensive approach to computing. It needs more support from drivers such as yourself (presuming you agree).

Spreading the word as I type this, Bob!

[tags]Linspire, CNR, Click and Run, dual-boot, linux[/tags]

  • Lisa S.

    I was happy with the DOS prompt back in the early 80s, but I’ve lost a lot of muscle strength since then and use Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9 to move around Windows. (I even can use the mouse and do some photo manipulation using voice…

    Do you know if Linspire is “wheelchair accessible” by voice using something like NaturallySpeaking?

  • http://plugintolinux.ca Jason Wallwork

    I’d recommend checking out Freespire instead which, as its name suggests, is free to download. You can get it via the Freespire option in the Linspire menu or by visiting http://freespire.org .

  • Frank

    I think it Linspire is truly wheelchair accessible. For the newbie, I recommend PCLinuxOS http://www.pclinuxos.com You can install it from a live cd and it will automatically install to free space on a Windows hard drive. Everything is already there – flash, java, etc. Very newbie friendly.