Linux.com | Review: SimplyMEPIS 3.4-3

Downloading it now to try.

One Response to “Linux.com | Review: SimplyMEPIS 3.4-3”

1. Steve says:

   February 10, 2006 at 9:02 pm

   I might try it too, now that Aaron has his motherboard back and his computer running again. (“And there was MUCH rejoicing!”) I am going to swap Windows to another machine and put Linux on this one, and I am suffering from “Distro Overwhelmation”. I just can’t make up my mind which of the 3,498,234 distributions out there to load on my machine. That, I think, is one of the problems that Linux has-the classic “embarrasment of riches”. I’m a geek, and if I can’t figure out which distro I want, how can Joe Regular? Oh well, I had Mepis on a machine for my wife before I got her a laptop (with XP, of course) and she did OK, and I rather liked it. I know it’s nonsensical, but I really liked the weather gadget that automagically installed and gave you the temperature and weather condition (sunny, cloudy, rainy, etc.) in the taskbar. Just a little widget, I know, but it was neat and simple, and the way it should be, not like “The Weather Channel” or (God help us) “Weather Bug”. If I never see “Weather Bug” on a machine again, it will be too soon. I truly hate applications that make you play twenty questions when you go to uninstall them. If I want you gone, just GO. In Mepis it was simple, and small, and easy to switch to anywhere in the US that you wanted to check out. Cool. Information at your fingertips when you want it. If that’s not what computers are for, there are cheaper ways to heat the house……