YlmF -- any thoughts ?

I recently installed the Chinese distro YlmF 3.0 on an older desktop. This installation is for the 14-year-old daughter of a friend. The Windows-clone distro was chosen so as not to imtimidate -- it closely resembles XP -- something she's familiar with.

The ease of installation and well-chosen Sources List (making upgrade painless and paneless) were impressive. People may well wonder at the seeming change of heart regarding things Windows, but it has to do with the intended user. ("Know your audience" is my rejoinder to critics )

YlmF 3.0 is also based on Ubuntu-10.04-LTS, the last 'buntu I would choose, personally. Overall, it was a breeze. The repos facilitated download and install of educational software, as well.

A review from Dedoimedo is here.

Just my tw0-cent's worth. I wanna hear yours.

My first thought is that they've shamelessly stolen commercial work to make that UI. No way any western company would get away with such a blatant act. That said it does make it look like the real deal but how long does it really take somebody to understand that the OoO document icon is the same thing as the Word icon? From having done a similar operation moving my brother from XP to Gnome it wasn't that hard a switch for a non power user.

There are other ways of getting a Windows style look, IceWM does a good job of being and NT4 UI, QVWM is another. Nothing stopping you installing either on the latest Mint, either the Debian or Ubuntu based flavours.

I dunno, I'm just not feeling the love for it. Whilst the dev's did a better job of it than I could it really does seem to be stealing from two camps, both Windows and Ubuntu.

Or use LXDE? It's close enough?

Where is this $10 said license?

*eager to buy more copies of XP*

Actually I just read the reviews on that link and it sounds a bit suspect.

It's the right sort of direction. Referb or old OEM stock does get cleared out and is legal.