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Pretty much if you have wine pre-installed you're good to go, things like photoshop are a bit rough..
It seems there is a distro that runs Wine by default, don’t remember which. (I’m sure it’s not called Winedows .)
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One is a reimplementation of the Windows operating system, the other is a Linux distribution that looks and is named kind of like Windows. Actually the page you linked states what happened to LindowsOS, they won a settlement, got $20 million and changed names.
Interestingly Linspire are still releasing. In fact their latest was just a few days ago! However you could be forgiven for thinking their homepage was a scam given it's dated look: https://www.linspirelinux.com/
Wasnt this distro created by the guy who founded MP3.com?
Yup Michael something too lazy to look it up
Another interesting piece of trivia is that he anonymously offered a bounty of $200,000 to get Linux to work on the Xbox.[1]
I believe his name was only revealed after the court case with Microsoft had been settled, presumably because his lawyers thought that paying people to hack Microsoft's console would be difficult to explain to a judge.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Robertson_%28businessm...
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One is a reimplementation of the Windows operating system, the other is a Linux distribution that looks and is named kind of like Windows. Actually the page you linked states what happened to LindowsOS, they won a settlement, got $20 million and changed names.
Interestingly Linspire are still releasing. In fact their latest was just a few days ago! However you could be forgiven for thinking their homepage was a scam given it's dated look: https://www.linspirelinux.com/
ReactOS [1] has similar interface to LindowsOS. But ReactOS is still in active development. Also LindowsOS was sued by Microsoft [2] back in 2001. Maybe this is why its gone now. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReactOS [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp._v._Lindows.com... .
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In reality it was only used by very technical people who didn’t want to pay for windows or support Microsoft
It was the first Linux distro I ever used, back when I was a kid and had never used a Unix command line before. :) Eventually my dad replaced it with a similar distro called Xandros, and that got me hooked on Amarok 1.3, which Xandros had rebranded on their distro. Amarok was then a killer app for me, and got me into Linux as a hobby when I was a teenager.
Ah, looks like it's a project in its own right, but the Wikipedia page has an Amarok screenshot.
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It was the first Linux distro I ever used, back when I was a kid and had never used a Unix command line before. :) Eventually my dad replaced it with a similar distro called Xandros, and that got me hooked on Amarok 1.3, which Xandros had rebranded on their distro. Amarok was then a killer app for me, and got me into Linux as a hobby when I was a teenager.
Amarok was awesome! I really liked the "moodbar" addon that converted each audio track into a colorful 1D strip, underneath the progress indicator. Ah, looks like it's a project in its own right, but the Wikipedia page has an Amarok screenshot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moodbar
Documentation from the Exaile project (another music player inspired by Amarok!) indicates that while the Amarok developers did not invent the moodbar, their implementation is the one we know and love (which was packaged as the standalone `moodbar` CLI program that could be used to generate moodbars that other players would also read):
https://github.com/exaile/moodbar
For me, Amarok was so good that it gave 13-year-old me enough reason to switch operating systems for daily use. The moodbar was definitely cool, and I remember being impressed that I could actually identify different sections of songs I knew with it.
The feature that really got me was the automatic lyrics fetching and other contextual information. I listened to music kinda obsessively, and I loved being able to instantly see the lyrics and really learn a song right away.