Comments on: $200 Everex gPC desktop featuring gOS proves to be popular

By: Jerrod

Jerrod — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 23:31:39 +0000

although i agree with you about the command line, using linux for the basic surfing, web mail, spreadsheet, cd burning, etc., is no more difficult than your first glimpse at a windows machine.

i’ve been using linux pretty much exclusively for the past year plus. nothing to tough. may even go look over one of these machines

can always throw a different distro on it, or even W2K or XP. don’t give a rats patooey about vistame2, anyway!

By: Jerrod

Jerrod — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 23:31:07 +0000

although i agree with you about the command line, using linux for the basic surfing, web mail, spreadsheet, cd burning, etc., is no more difficult than your first glimpse at a windows machine.

i’ve been using linux pretty much exclusively for the past year plus. nothing to tough. may even go look over one of these machines

can always throw a different distro on it, or even W2K or XP.

By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 02:16:31 +0000

I thought Linux was for technically advanced gear heads who enjoyed spending all their time recompiling programs and typing in incomprehensible commands at the CLI? Now it’s for Grandma and a beginner machine. 512 meg of RAM and an 80 gig HD won’t run the bloated DRM’ed Vista, but would certainly run GIMP and open sourced video editing software. Not well, I grant you. Most folks never upgrade anything but RAM and HD anyway. At least Granny won’t have to stress over viruses and malware. Hopefully the hardware won’t crap out because of cheap componets.