SimplyMepis is kinda cool in regards to its interface. But, it seems to lack the conformity and professionalism I’ve come to associate with the Windows Operating System. And it doesn’t liken to a Mac’s white bubbly Operating System either. It seems sort of a jumble of useful applications and systems to me. Yes, I am be slightly handicapped in the realm of technology but the advantages of the Linux system don’t escape me completely.
Free for the most part, and stable. And okay, open source code. Great, super, everyone working toward a better world sort of super. Updates and improvements are ever coming through the network of programmers out there who are technologically very literate (aka more literate than me). That’s pretty neat, but it seems that a lot of programs that run on the Windows and Mac OS s don’t have a solid base in the Linux OS, thus making it a less convenient system to use.
Other than that, I liked the many games, but the speed was a little slow (because it was running off a disk). And the lots of “K” programs that emulated “I” in Mac systems seemed to have lots of useful features. The “Kontact” program found in the taskbar or whatever bar, had most of the utilities found in Outlook but had an additional feature for Feeds which was awesome. And the internet browser was Firefox by default which was a total plus too.
The system button, and the window that popped up seemed to have all the necessaries and the usual bits like documents, bookmarks, etc.. That was nice and all, but what really made me like the Linux OS was the atypical icons and the fun fish at the bottom of the screen. Yes, that does make me a shallow OS user but what can I say.
