Linspire - The Successor to Lindows (that’s still around)

Today we're checking out the successor to Lindows that believe it or not... is still around! Although the original company isn't involved anymore, Linspire is still in active development and gets new releases pushed out every so often. Is it any good? Let's find out!

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● Chapters:
00:00 - Some backstory...
00:30 - How we got here
04:16 - Installation
09:40 - Initial exploration
10:39 - A realization...
12:14 - Bundled programs
14:56 - The package managers
17:47 - Installing new stuff
20:03 - SuperTux
20:51 - Final Thoughts

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[MidNS]

An unbranded usb drive in an otherwise empty dvd case is the most suspect thing I've ever seen. At the local asian market the bootleg DVDs have the paperwork and logo'd disks, I think these people could handle it too.

[glyvox]

an usb drive in a dvd case is a war crime

[kill]

Imagine spending 20 mil on a name that would have never confused anybody

[Lampe]

18:15 Okay, I'll have to let my inner Linux nerd speak here - in most shells (including BASH, the default on Ubuntu) you can use double exclamation mark as a reference to the previous command, so instead of modifying the previous command to run with sudo you could've just run "sudo !!" and it would have done the same.

[SAYHIJAMMY]

This guy and LGR are as soothing to watch as bob ross for me.

[insert_username_here]

Why anyone would use Linspire over any other distro with wine installed is beyond me

[MoultrieGeek]

Glad you mentioned that other distros offer support at the corporate level. For the life of me I can't understand why any company would choose this over Red Hat (or one of its clones), Ubuntu or SUSE. Just doesn't make sense unless support is offered at a *much* reduced cost.

[ruslrusl]

So basically you pay $30 for chrome and steam

[kFY]

I need to admit, I never really grasped the idea of paid Linux distros. Maybe they made some sense in the early 2000s when they included actually useful software, like office suites in the days before OpenOffice became usable. But now? Google Chrome is freeware anyway if you want that, so is Steam; the "proprietary codecs" are also no-cost even if not open source. What would be the point in paying for any of that?

Maybe it makes _some_ sense for enterprise users thanks to the commercial, but... I still kinda doubt it. Small businesses will just have regular prebuilt computers with WIndows or macOS on them from the factory, and larger businesses will have IT departments fully capable of maintaining installs of whatever OS they choose. Besides, you can buy commercial support for, say, Ubuntu. So who's actually buying distros like Linspire?

[TonoyisSleepy]

it more so looks like that they were panicking on what to give him. i think they were like "oh shit this guy has ordered a physical copy !!?? what the heck do we give him because no one really has ever done that". at least thats what i think is the reasoning behind that lame packaging

[EpikoXailia]

I was literally JUST watching another MJD video. Yay more content to watch while I eat!

[MarcoGPUtuber]

Babe, wake up, MJD just dropped a new video!

[cocusar]

honest question, but who pays for this? the idea behind RHEL and similar distros is the actual support for them, not that the distro is behind a payment. I don't think this gets you any support by default if you don't add it specifically to the purchase order! I don't have anything against these people behind linspire, but this is a generic distro based off debian/ubuntu probably

[philtkaswahl]

I am genuinely surprised Xandos didn't release something Xandspire along the way.

Also, generic unbranded USB drive in an old DVD case makes it feel like some kind of contraband.

[alternatuber]

For decades never heard it till now.

Thanks

[stevenjlovelace]

I still remember where I was when I heard that Linspire was not dead. (I was watching this video just a few moments ago.)

[TroubledTrooper]

A Linux distro shipping with Chrome and Brave, that's a first lol

[josephmiller]

Saw this video come up in my suggestions and immediately looked over at my boxed copy of LinSpire from 2005 on my shelf of old relics. What a blast from the past.

[UltraZelda]

I knew Linspire/Freespire were still (sort of) around, I remember hearing about the last two releases or so, it occasionally makes its way into the news, but to me honest in my opinion their new versions are nothing to write home about. At least Freespire's, I'm not going to pay to try Linspire. But Xandros though... I had no idea that was still around! To be fair, it seems almost exactly like the Spires, just with different branding, but it's still interesting. Even it is only a shadow of its former self; way back when it was listed on Distrowatch and new releases were posted as news, it was a very interesting distro. It had a very clean UI, friendly Windows like setup wizards, and generally just worked. Now... I just don't see how it comes even close to all the competition.

[nada]

I think its pretty funny that there are companies selling a distributions like this. Essentially they dont do much, its just based ubuntu with some minor customization, but schools and whatever corporations originally bought linspire think they need it, because they dont know better. Its sort of the same situation like with that AOL Desktop that michael recently made video about.