Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 4th Sep 2008 21:33 UTC
A few weeks ago, I reviewed the Acer Aspire One notebook, the variant which came with an Acer-modified version of Linpus Linux. This version was locked-down and difficult to modify, so not too long after I installed Ubuntu, and was reasonably pleased - despite the amount of tweaking it took to get it working. A few days ago, however, I realised Linux wouldn't be ideal for me on my netbook. Due to pragmatic reasons, I'm now running Windows XP.
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The big problem with Ubuntu is not so much the OS itsellf, but the applications. Evolution is slower and heavier than Outlook 2003, Firefox/Linux is slower than Firefox/Windows, Gaim is a total dog compared to Miranda, and OOo doesn't hold a candle to this specialised version of Office 2003 (seriously, that's something you gotta see to believe) and so on.
Please, don't write complete nonsense if you're so clueless.
This was the worst article ever written.
Linux beats XP in every single feature, it's simply no contest.
So all you know to do is slap Ubuntu on he netbook, not knowing first thing about Linux obviously.
Then when you realize you'd have to invest a bit of time to find hardware that works with Linux you take the lazy way out and slap XP on the netbook and in the end you proclaim that it was the right thing to do and that now you're finally happy.
With this article you've lost any little shred of credibility you may have had before.