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If a couple of lines of text annoy people as the machine boots and they turn away, they obiviously can't see past their own noses and maybe they should just go elsewhere....So it don't look pretty when it boots.......Least you only have to boot once per session and not have to worry about the Blue Screen Of Death which the term isn't even acknowledged by MS on their help site....

How many times do you have to reboot linux to install and use a new driver..

NEVER

If you want the functionality of windows (I say this with my tongue firmly in cheek) and can't be bothered to learn something new...well you know where the door is.....I bet learning windows wasn't easy to begin with was it ??????

Look Puppy is different to most LINUX distributions and by mimicking MS windows would do nothing that others haven't tried before.....

Get over they differences and just think about how much quicker and stable Puppy is

Lobster · Posted: Tue 09 Aug 2005, 00:32 Post subject:

Ay Chiwawa - woof woof (or "yes" "done")

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Sirexel · Joined: 08 Aug 2005 Posts: 23 Location: Spain

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Not angry man...just not real good at being diplomatic...what you have to consider too is that Puppy has only been in development for 2 years or so where as alot of distros have years on Puppy.....And unlike many other Live Distros Barry more or less started from scratch....

But when you think about it Windows requires user input to get networks up and running and constant reboots for the slightest change.......well upto NT5 based windows.

An operator has knows his tool better will always be more effecient than one that does not.

For anything to try to be all things to all peoples will never be much to anyone.

Don't mind me I'm just like a bull in a china shop Smile

Rich · Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 278 Location: Middlesbrough - UK

From my own personal point of view, here's how I see it

Booting Windows:

Turn on Computer, turn on Kettle.
Splash screen appears and windows begins loading.
Make a coffee.
Come back, desktop loaded but hard drive still clattering away for a good while.
Drink coffee until computer has decided that it's ready for me.

Booting Puppy.

Turn on Computer, turn on Kettle.
Splash screen appears and Puppy begins loading.
Make a coffee.
Use the computer .

If the boot in windows develops a problem, the screen just sits there with it's pretty picture on it.......no clues at all really.
If the boot in Puppy develops a problem, I can read exactly where it gets up to before it hangs, then find out why and sort it out.

Either way though, I don't think that all this discussion on the boot up screen has any relevance to me as I'm always in the kitchen making a coffee anyway Very Happy

rarsa · Posted: Tue 09 Aug 2005, 12:44 Post subject:

uhu? I got lost.

When did this thread turned in a Windows V.S Linux thread?

I thought it was about Current Puppy towards a better Puppy.

Every person will have personal ideas of how to improve Puppy. Those ideas may certainly come from previous experiences, that's how knowledge advances.

So, let's listen to the ideas and let Barry decide which ones he likes for Puppy and what each unleasher likes for they personal flavour.

Can we move on?

Flash · Posted: Tue 09 Aug 2005, 16:31 Post subject:

rarsa · Posted: Tue 09 Aug 2005, 16:59 Post subject:

Bancobusto · Joined: 13 Jun 2005 Posts: 168 Location: Vancouver Island

Good points there... I to enjoy being able to make my desktop look and act and feel pretty much however I wish... Very Happy

There's a fine line though between giving someone the choice to modify their desktop and dumbing them down. Currently, with Puppy, we boot into FVWM by default, because that's Barry's preference. At least we have the ability to change that without much hassle at all.

I agree that there are some great suggestions being made here... I guess it comes down to what direction Puppy is going to take, right? Is the only way to attract new users is to look and act and feel just like Windoes? No, I was attracted to Puppy without a trash can or anything else.

Again, everyones differrent , and everyones opinions are valid and interesting.
Just remember, that all these suggestions are quite easy to implement personally, and then one could remaster the CD and there you go.

Cheers

Ian · Posted: Wed 10 Aug 2005, 01:24 Post subject:

You are all right in what you are saying, Windows is not Puppy and with a little effort almost anyone can have their own custom version of Puppy.

For the people who want that out-of-the-box solution there is the main release of Puppy, the other versions created by Barry and others are there to be tested and used by anyone who cares to tinker with them.

All this input including this post does go towards improving and refining Puppy so lets keep the discussions rolling, remember any debate always raises points that some people might never have considered.

Bancobusto · Joined: 13 Jun 2005 Posts: 168 Location: Vancouver Island

Hey, you know that cute Puppy that we get to admire for about 5 seconds if we boot off of the live CD? How hard would it be to load the boot messages on top of the picture? I think that would look really nice. That way we could still see the messages, yet have something pretty to look at in the meantime.

Boot messages don't bother me much with Puppy, as they only seem to last for about 10-14 seconds when I have it installed to hard drive. Not freakin' bad. Very Happy

Flash · Posted: Wed 10 Aug 2005, 15:29 Post subject:

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Ay Chiwawa - woof woof (or "yes" "done")

I think this was supposed to be

Ay Chihuahua......no? [/quote]

Or maybe even "Hay Chihuahua"?

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