It's Gloom and Doom Time Again
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| caitlyn May 16, 2009 11:59 AM EDT |
Linux is dead on netbooks. It's dead on the desktop where it has "a sad history". Netbooks have a 30% return rate and the return rate for Linux netbooks is four times higher. That makes a staggering 120% of Linux netbooks being returned, more than were actually purchased! Anyone else seeing major B.S. here? Eric Brown is once again quoting the MSI exec who claimed a four times higher return rate before his company had sold even one Linux based netbook. How do I know this? I followed HIS LINK. That story has been debunked eight million or so times by now and this guy is still using it ON A LINUX WEBSITE. WTF??? Intel claims an alarming return rate because sales people are being deceptive about what netbooks can do. That one I do believe, particularly if the netbooks run Windows. By the time you add anti-virus and anti-spyware software plus maybe a personal firewall on to a resource hungry OS you have an incredibly slow system. Of course a Windows netbook can't do what a more powerful machine can do. Unfortunately sales people aren't well trained and don't know to recommend a Linux-based machine that has no such problem. Running a nicely tweaked Linux distro my little netbook can do everything and anything I throw at it. Of course, I'm assuming these sales people even have Linux boxes in their stores and most just don't. Netbooks aren't the problem. Windows is. Ignorance is. Oh, and for the last time, Linux isn't failing on netbooks. Last week Linpus predicted Linux market share for netbooks will be 50% next year. You know what? They may be right because by this time next year the hottest netbooks, the ones with the really long battery life, won't be running x86 architecture processors. Windows doesn't run on ARM or MIPS or PowerPC. |
| tuxchick May 16, 2009 12:55 PM EDT |
looks like a good LXer feature to me! |
| TxtEdMacs May 16, 2009 1:14 PM EDT |
Quoting: ... Netbooks have a 30% return rate and the return rate for Linux netbooks is four times higher. That makes a staggering 120% of Linux netbooks being returned, more than were actually purchased! Anyone else seeing major B.S. here?This is absolute truth and the explanation is simple. The excess simply comes from purchases that began as XP installs that were found deficient. Therefore, in desperation many individuals installed Linux and found it wanting. So the Linux excess returns were just conversions that prove absolutely and finally Linux sucks rocks. I told you long ago, BSDs are DEAD and Linux is dying. NOTHING can match Vista Extreme Pro Bono Desktop purchased on a smudged disc in the back alleys of Tiapei, Shanghai or Biejing. Next, where else do you expect the truth to reside, if not on a Linux website telling all that they should abandon hope and jump ship, forthwith? Seems perfectly logical to me, no need for excess emotions. Let's not be confused by conflicting facts when the facts are hidden (for your own good, and commercial reasons). So lets stop confusing the core issues, Windows rules accommodate yourself to that fact. If you must, please use your Linux desktop quietly and we will say nothing. Agreed? So who are these Linpus people, sounds like a disease to me. Your just biased, sore loser that cannot believe when incontrovertible fact goes against your beliefs. Get with the program. Personally I never see blue screens of death, or many lock ups and no sign of worms, viruses, etc. I run Ubuntu Windows and it works fine for me. What's your problem? YBT |
| caitlyn May 18, 2009 3:22 PM EDT |
Did anyone else see the Taipei Times article where Linpus claims Linux will reclaim 50% of the netbook market by next year? tuxchick put it on Linux Today but otherwise it's been widely ignored. |
| tuxchick May 18, 2009 5:31 PM EDT |
Preston Gralla, the unofficial Microsoft Information Minister, has been banging the "desktop linux is dead and so is netbook Linux, neener neener" drum real hard lately. Plus the usual horde of "bloggers" and "reporters." Of course they all arrive at their conclusions completely independently, and are not corruptly influenced in any way. |
| caitlyn May 21, 2009 3:38 PM EDT |
I may quote your "unofficial Microsoft Information Minister" line in an upcoming article. I wanted to write one to debunk the "Linux is dead" on the desktop set and came up with enough material for three or four. You've seen the first... Might one become an LXer feature? Yep, could be. |
| tuxchick May 21, 2009 5:24 PM EDT |
Of course you may quote any of my pearls of wisdom you find on public forums, caitlyn. Thanks for the courtesy of asking. Mmm, tasty lxer features. |
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