Actually, this is probably the best presentation I’ve seen in any OS altogether. Hands down, this is the best presentation I’ve ever seen in a Linux distribution. The first thing I noticed about Linspire 5.0 was its presentation. A happy medium of 1024×768 would’ve been a better idea. What’s even worse, the installer ran at a resolution of 1600×1200 60hz refresh rate, which made me feel like my eyes were going to pop out of my head! (My monitor doesn’t handle anything above 1024×768 well). If that is true, that is a real shame, even Windows has a partition manager. It allows you to select which partition to install it on, however I didn’t see a partition manager which leads me to believe that you may need to create the partition prior to installing. Linspire installed in about 10 minutes for me, which was really good, but it doesn’t really offer many advanced options. I wasn’t too keen about blowing away my Fedora installation (I only have one computer with enough resources to run anything above DOS) but eventually curiousity took over, and I went for it. Still, I was intrigued enough to inquire about reviewing Linspire, and they were nice enough to provide me with a digital download copy with a trial Click N Run (CNR) subscription. I’ve never really been a big fan of Linspire though, because I am a power user. Linspire has always intrigued me, it’s a professional class operating system aimed at the mainstream market, and one of the few Linux distributions available in boxed sets.
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