Linspire 10 Released - Claims Of "Most Meticulously Designed & Engineered FOSS Desktop"

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linspire 10 Released - Claims Of "Most Meticulously Designed & Engineered FOSS Desktop"

Linspire 10 is out this week as the newest version of this Linux distribution formerly known as Lindows nearly two decades ago. While Linspire went dark for several years, under its current ownership by PC/OpenSystems they have been trying to reinvigorate the desktop distribution the past few years. Linspire 10 represents the latest work for the Ubuntu-based platform...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linspire-10-Released

[Paradigm Shifter]

I get that they're pushing the marketing hard, but... words fail me beyond that.

[piorunz]

Lol. What?

[Cotyso]

The Year of the Linux Desktop is finally here

[loganj]

really now....and they claim that with that ugly gnome DE?

[kpedersen]

They would stand a better chance of their goal if they simply bundled in a vanilla Gnome 2

Then they might have some serious chance of becoming *the* desktop distro.

[Slartifartblast]

This article has inspired me to re-watch Used Cars (1980) tonight....

[flower]

Hmmm interesting.
I would pay 30$ for a pure systemd distro (no upstart bridging mess. not sure if linspire is that) without snap and first class zfs support (no dkms)

But... I can't trust them to stay around.

[George99]

So what's their unique selling point beside the colorful wallpaper?

[V1tol]

Wow not gnome, much designed desktop, so unique