All the things he finds objectionable I would have called FEATURES. He would do better on Ubuntu.
On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 8:19 AM Eric Auer <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi! Forwarding something from the BTTR forum: > > "I tried to use the FreeDOS 1.3RC installation CD. Because I found > a Dell Latitude610 notebook. And I am really dispappointed because > it is something really awful. The live system is unusable, the boot > process ends in the minimal configuration unable to do anything > useful. No file manager is prepared and the user has no usable help. > The user even has no information which disc drives are in the system." > > The review also compares it to the Windows-based Hiren Boot CD, > making me wonder whether we play in the same usability league. > > In Hiren, you get a hierarchical menu of available utilities at > boot. So for Live CD utility purposes, it is very easy to use. > > Next, the review tests installation, given that the Live CD use > case is as unfriendly as you would expect DOS to be ;-) > > "Ugly FDisk (although we have a more user friendly partition tools)" > > Also, the install is slow. How slow is it? Are caches used? ELTORITO? > > After the install: Again "No file manager, no infi about installed > drives. No utility for getting some system information" Interestingly, > the reporter mentions the BLOCEK text editor as the only source for > getting a system information overview? > > Which better SYSINFO utilities could we bundle? HWINFO, NSSI > and VC probably are all closed source, what else is out there? > > Finally, the reporter (the whole post has a quite harsh tone) > complains that the default install will install FAR too few > useful apps and that the package management groups are badly > sorted (e.g. no subcategories for utilities) and that there > should be no base64 tool in "base"... > > Regards, Eric > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- Johnpaul T. Humphrey _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
