It so happens, I came across this same review just last night and was going to mention it here. I looked for an older lastOSLinux review where neofetch, inxi and htop linux commands were mentioned (with their switches) which I forgot (I take notes now) and couldn't recall or find them among basic linux commands listed on various websites.
Again (like in those older reviews) I find it weird how much weight is put on such inconsequential stuff like wallpaper looks, even put it here in the review title. I really does look like a big thing only if you lived your computing life in a dark colorless cave on CLI with no GUI to speak of as probably it is not too uncommon in linux world. But as you generously say
Not the most positive review ever, but not too bad.
Also they seem to expect semi professional group of developers behind linux projects, a polished website dedicated just to this particular project, and with it comes expectation of flawless spelling. Mind you, even professional writers of all kinds are aware of the need for proofreading by someone else, the text author always has blind spots to his own miss-spellings and such like errors.
I never looked up what ADHD means but autism I think refers to people who are primarily or to a large extent inward oriented. Autism has become a fashionable label to put people down as less fit to live in society when they avoid gregarious socializing and have bigger need to have 'their own space', physical and mental. This in contrast to the average folks who have very little inner intellectual life and spend their days in close company with others. To such folks, mobile phones came as a godsend, they get hooked being connected on the phone constantly in calls or chatting inanities on social networks, that's what they crave and the companies behind it exploit it (this mass and constant use makes the technology cheap for the rest of us, I see it as a positive thing, less primitive segment of population is immune to it, so what).
Thought is not a social process, to think, you need to stop communicating with others who might crave your attention and thus take you away from the train of thought and a deeper thought requires dropping awareness of external world almost entirely, relying only on subconscious guidance.
There is probably an extreme kind of autism when people are actually psychologically damaged, abnormal and almost unfit to lead an independent life but that is not what this autism label, as it is thrown freely around, is about.
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It's a bit worrying that it installs a subscription-based proprietary app without a by-your-leave
I do notice in app description what is what, I believe it says it there.
Wouldn't like the mentioned Zorin big bro to steer me around. Mind you, Zorin strikes me as catering to totally lay computer users (mac of win) who don't mind to be shepherded around.
Warez seems to be generally looked down upon in linux community, wonder what makes them to be so straight. Makes me wonder what is behind it, if it is the idea that to be accepted by big leagues and taken seriously, you have to be free of it or maybe it is the pride of having their own open source linux programs?
For example, we found optical-disk burning tools and multiple different media players, which seems superfluous to us.
Who is those 'us'? Inveterate expert linux community chasing the latest versions of everything and squeezing the last ounce out of their hardware on a lean mean linux distro? LastOSLinux is not for them, it is for people with either older windows hardware (who might still a burner in a bay and burn/read CDs and might want to keep using their favorite media player) or people with up to date machines who are fed up with where win11 is taking them. End of support for win10 is only concern to those who need handholding in the dangerous, nay even evil world out there.
Some of these are packages with the distro's
own tools and its own
Free Mega Games Pack, but we can't tell you much about those: the links are dead, or just lead to the LastOS forum's homepage.
Here I thought, where did they fish out this link? I can't recall last time I was at this home page of LastOS and I don't wonder ssWPI and MGP reference with link that doesn't work and other things (they didn't mention) like AppDisc etc got them confused.
The (Apps) categories make little sense to us – this information feels like it's relevant to the distro builder, not to the end user. Similarly, the color coding won't be helpful at all for colorblind users.
No idea why pick on those app categories in the store, it is helpful even for me even if I dislike very much Start menu categorizing. And if that categorizing doesn't make sense to somebody, he doesn't have to use it, same as I don't use that offered start menu sorting in LastOS setup panel.
That comment about colors seems to be intentional foul - where did they get the idea this release is or should be catering to people with disabilities and that it should be stripped of features that folks with various disabilities might not be able to use? What about us who are not disabled, should we be deprived of such life improving features?
Suppose I can't see colors or my monitor is B&W only, then I can still bloody hell read LLApp, ssApp, ppApp etc, etc,, so where is the problem? That color coding is a nice extra help to spot what is what in the several page scrolling list of apps, also makes it more pretty being colorful.
We quite like Mint's restrained, dark, and sober looks ourselves, and LastOS Linux is a bit bright and neon-hued for our tastes, but your mileage may vary.
Inexplicably, LastOS includes the macOS Mojave wallpaper
Again, it took me no time at all as a complete linux beginner to switch to the included Mint wallpaper. What's the bloody problem here? On the other older imac I used wallpaper from the mac partition since the explorer allowed me to browse files on it (couldn't on the newer imac with APFS disk format).
Mojave wallpaper... how inexplicable? Maybe Glenn just likes it or it was on hand, why the need for everything to be explainable in some obvious way? This is like picking when you just want to find negatives.
oh and my bad English, but he probably can't even understand my native language of PC Basic (XOJO in this case), so I won't hold it against him, I know my Autism/ADHD keeps me from seeing my grammar mistakes. Maybe if I wasn't bullied all through highschool I'd not have failed English and had a different life to the one I've lived.
