Freespire O/S - thoughts

[wpshooter]

I am thinking about giving Freespire a try.

If you have used both Freespire and Ubuntu, please give me your thoughts regarding the two. Which do you like best. Reasons.

Thanks.

 

[Brazen]

I checked out Linspire years ago and hated it. I checked out the screenshots for freespire though, and I'm not at al impressed with the overall look. Of course, freespire's main goal is to look and feel like Windows; whereas Ubuntu's goal is to look and feel like the best distro it can be.

One thing interesting that I noticed in the screenshots though - it looks like it has a package management system with proprietary software in it. Namely, it showed Postal 2: Share the Pain with a price tag on it. If they found a good way to integrate pay-for software into their packaging system, and have one-click install for it, then that's a pretty good thing IMO.

 

[sourceninja]

Freespire is just a ploy to get you to pay for their service that they use to install programs. Without that service, its not really worth using, stick with someting free.

 

[nweaver]

linspire is junk, and freespire is probably worse

You cannot beat a good package managment system. The best is probably apt, then yum or yast. Emerge is worth throwing in there, if you have lots of cpu cycles/time.

 

[imported_LoKe]

I used Linspire/Lindows. What a huge piece of crap. Plus, they want you to pay for some of ther services, I think.

 

[pcthuglife]

I think the screen shots look pretty nice. I might actually give it a try on one of my spare pcs.