Resounding failure
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| jacog Apr 01, 2010 3:13 AM EDT |
Quoting:Linux was a resounding failure on netbooks While this might be partially true, the fault was not "Linux", but rather with vendors releasing these things with half-baked barely useful distributions full of outdated software and no way to upgrade any of it. Well, you *could* go hacking away at the software repos and stuff, but that immediately makes it fail in terms of it aiming to be an "internet appliance". At least the Jolicloud peeps* seem dedicated to actually supporting the software, keeping their repositories well-stocked, etc. * Not to be confused with Marshmallow Peeps |
| bigg Apr 01, 2010 5:57 AM EDT |
If Linux had failed on netbooks, there would be no netbooks. Microsoft brought XP back from the dead, then basically gave it away for free so that vendors would use it, then pushed vendors to put it on all their netbooks. Linux sounds wildly successful to me. One needs to look at more than just the current market share of in-store Best Buy purchases. What if it turns out that Microsoft was so scared that netbooks would become a Linux training device that they paid vendors $30 a netbook to use Windows? |
| Sander_Marechal Apr 01, 2010 7:23 AM EDT |
And Windows is still horrible on netbooks. My mother-in-law just bought an EeePC 1200 with Windows 7 pre-installed. You won't believe how slow it is. In her mind, this was normal. "After all, it's a slow computer". I explained to her that the 1200 is actually a lot faster than the big computer I have under my desk (which is a couple of years old) and that it was Windows 7, not the netbook, that was slow. Now the netbook runs Ubuntu. Fast. Screamingly so. |
| jacog Apr 01, 2010 7:57 AM EDT |
I'm just tired of the entity known as "Linux" getting blamed for whatever the perceived lack of success is. If ya ain't gunna do it right, don't bother. |
| techiem2 Apr 01, 2010 8:39 AM EDT |
Quoting:If ya ain't gunna do it right, don't bother. But that doesn't fit the MS Way. The proper message is (for trying to convince people that the MS Way really is the right way): "If ya ain't gunna do it right, blame Linux and the User." :P |
| bigg Apr 01, 2010 8:53 AM EDT |
A few months ago I was in a retail store. There was same ancient fossil in there (must have been 60) who wanted a netbook but wanted to pay them to install Linux on it. They kept trying to sell him a laptop and giving him lines about how netbooks are not capable of doing what a "regular" computer can do. He kept coming back with "it will if you use Linux". He was pleading with them that he didn't know much about computers, so he needed someone to install Linux, because it was both easier and more capable. His son had installed Linux on his previous netbook, but then took it with him to college, and the poor guy just didn't want to go back to Windows. |
| jdixon Apr 01, 2010 9:15 AM EDT |
> While this might be partially true, No, it's not even partially true. The last time someone asked Dell, Linux made up something like 30% of their netbook sales. Now, given the way they seem to have de-emphasized Linux machines, that may have dropped in recent months, but that doesn't change the fact that Linux netbooks have been extremely successful. Oh, and it bears repeating that I really like my Mini-9. I'm hoping there's an official upgrade to Ubuntu 10.04 released for it. |
| dinotrac Apr 01, 2010 9:41 AM EDT |
>There was same ancient fossil in there (must have been 60) who wanted a netbook Excuuuuuuuuuuse me for reading your comment from out here in ancient fossil land (I'm 57). Not to say anything, but your fossil is smart enough to know good from bad, know what he wants, and insist on getting it. Sounds a lot more hip than 95% of computer users. Including those whiny little babies under 40. |
| jacog Apr 01, 2010 9:44 AM EDT |
Early Cretaceous? |
| dinotrac Apr 01, 2010 10:15 AM EDT |
Careful there, jacog -- My best friend is a Utahraptor... |
| gus3 Apr 01, 2010 11:46 AM EDT |
Quoting:My best friend is a UtahraptorYou know Brent Hatch? /me ducks and runs... |
| dinotrac Apr 01, 2010 11:50 AM EDT |
Boo. Hiss. |
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