Cotton
OS Mini Review
First
in a series of mini reviews of lesser known Linux distros comes
Likemoresoft’s Cotton OS, a windows-lookalike intended to ease the
migration from Microsoft.
Cotton
is based on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS using the kwin window manager from
Kubuntu and the Xfce desktop from Xubuntu. On the test Asus Eeebox
underlying CPU & memory usage stood at 3% and 17% (350Mb)
respectively rising to 17% and 30% (590Mb) with Firefox running.
The
installed software is typical of an xfce distro, Firefox and
Thunderbird for web and mail, Parole and Gmusicbrowser for media,
Abiword and Gnumeric for office.
The
standout feature of CottonOS is its “windows-like” appearance.
The default “user” account has traditional M$ icons and the
background of Windows 8 complete with a conky displaying the weather
in Los Angeles whilst the “root” account is a slightly less
offensive monochrome design.
As
expected from a xfce distro, CottonOS is FAST. That is the only
reason for using it, its speed cannot make up for its abominable
appearance and blatant misuse of M$ Windows trademarks. I had this
installed for a month and avoided using it like the plague. The only
way its makers can possibly avoid legal action is by claiming fair
use as a parody. That claim would be immediately believable.
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