osnews.com — As we all know by now, netbooks are the latest craze in the computing world. Small notebooks, perfect for on the go, and relatively cheap. The interesting thing is that these netbooks are often offered with Linux pre-installed instead of Windows, and this prompts many to believe that it is the netbook niche where Linux will gain its first solid foo
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lolcat23Aug 17, 2008
i think not. be cause i dont think ppl think of netbooks as small computers with linux. they see it as individual products. So if eeepc fails, they think "naw, didnt like the eeepc, maybe [other netbook] is better", i dont think they consider the fact it was linux this-or-that that made it fail.Flexible for most users means trouble, they want something that is atleast decent in its as-is state. no need for tinkering. and like i said earlier, those that want tinkering will find ways of doing it, by installing other distros or "unlocking" the currently installed distro. The ppl who dont want to tinker dont care if the terminal doesnt work, has limited functionality or whatever, they just want to check their email and read some digg stories :P
kataliebAug 17, 2008
I second YodaNub. Xandros wasnt up to snuff - especially its passwordless sudo, single user with username "user", no login pw if you swithced to Advanced mode, no Iptables in kernel !!! etc.. In short, Xandros was made to include all the stupid XP-like things. Even drives showed up as drive letters.. c: d: e: wtf??Switched to Ubuntu-eee Hardy, made all the needed changed to get all Fn keys and Wireless led working, and a custom kernel for Celeron and CPU frequency scaling. Now simply everything works perfectly, and the 701 is fast. The custom kernel really made a difference. Am running Compiz also, its smooth.XP already blew my head way back 5 years ago, so bad that I had to do violence to the original install disc. So that options out, for my blood pressure. With Ubuntu-eee its perfect, as long as you can get it installed and configured.
deucediggalowAug 17, 2008
Linux > MicrosoftFact
relaszAug 17, 2008
I think you just won at Digg.
dhughesAug 17, 2008
Relasz, I'm not talking about power users or the so-called "early adopters" who buy the latest thing I'm talking about the mom and pop demographic who just do very basic tasks; word processor, web and e-mail. The Baby Boomers are a gigantic part of the North American (by which I mean Canada and USA) and at present I've read there are 1000 people per day retiring from their jobs, I'd say the 'Boomers' are comfortable enough with computers to use them but not so much that they use complex and varied applications such as a CAD program or it has to work with a brand new mobile phone. Most computers I've help fix pretty much just do the basics with the most complex task being Limewire *shudder* and at most a torrent application. Most people nearly lose it when Flash won't work in their browsers, the majority of people who own computers are not a tech savy bunch!
chrislowderAug 17, 2008
No!
init100Aug 22, 2008
"First, let me say that I'm a linux guy, I've been using Debian for a long time and everything about it has a special place in my heart. But that being said, I still find myself using my XP computer a lot more"Then you're not a Linux guy. You are a Microsoft-loving, Ballmer-kissing Windows fanboy, who only uses Linux to excuse your criticism of it.
lofispySep 25, 2008
wow init100, I really wish I had caught your smug little comment earlier. Why is it that everything has to be so black and white with you fanboys. Which, btw, I take serious exception to you calling me one. I just use what works, nothing more, nothing less. What the f**k is wrong with that? Does my sensibility hurt you're little fanboy head? Does the fact that I dual boot Vista 64 and Debian sid somehow make me some sort of traitor to your little crusade? Sure, linux is great. But I don't have all the time in the world like you obviously do to climb the technical mountains that linux forces you to climb to do something as simple as get some damn bluetooth drivers working. I have work to get done and money to make, and Windows lets me do it faster, more efficiently, and with less headaches. I mean f**k, show me something on linux that can sync all my data and schedules from my smartphone and that does it as quickly and easily as Office 2007. Ya, sure there's wine and VMs, but hell, wine is as buggy most of the time as a damn ant hill and why us a VM when I could just use the real thing. So, like it or not there init100, I'll just keep right on dual booting my computers as I see fit and you can go on being a sardonic, abrasive little fanboy incapable of seeing the benefit of just using what works, as opposed to limping along with your pie in the sky OS ideals...