Spending a Week with Xandros: First Impressions
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| The ability to easily create a dual boot between Windows and Xandros
| -- essentially giving you some training wheels until you're ready to
| solo -- makes Xandros appealing right out of the box. Its Xandros File
| Manager has a familiar Windows feel and CrossOver Office allows you to
| run those last few pesky Windows apps if you really have to. The
| security suite is just icing on the cake when it comes to selling
| Xandros to the now paranoid Windows crowd.
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| So would I take the plunge and switch permanently to Xandros? And would I
| set Aunt Mary up with a Xandros box for browsing (via Firefox), email (with
| Thunderbird), word processing, and viewing photos? Aunt Mary is a
| no-brainer. I mean, she has a brain, but there's simply no good argument
| for forcing her to use Windows over Xandros. Most things work out of the
| box, and with the security inherent in Linux, I wouldn't have to worry
| about her breaking many things or having a zombie computer serving up spam
| emails the next time I visited her. The same holds true for most users with
| similar requirements. Why pay a premium and risk your security at the same
| time? For those of us who enjoy gaming or who need to use the latest and
| greatest versions of software like Photoshop and Dreamweaver, we may need
| to stick with Windows for a little longer. But if I were Microsoft, I'd
| have the FUD machine set to "High." Oh wait a minute, they already do.
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