Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 5th Oct 2008 21:21 UTC
The netbook craze is currently in full swing, with these small laptops being advertised everywhere (at least here in The Netherlands); in fact, you can already get netbooks with 3G from the mobile phone carriers at severely reduced prices (but with a one or two year contract, of course). Netbooks are also welcomed by the Linux community as the break they've been waiting for: many netbooks are available with Linux pre-installed. One of the more successful (and powerful) netbooks out there is MSI's Wind, which is also sold under different brand and model names by other companies. In an interview with LaptopMag, MSI's Director of US Sales Andy Tung, however, has some bad news for those that believe the netbook will be the foot in the door that the Linux desktop has been waiting for.
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2008-03-10
I hate to break it to you all, but workarounds on 40 year old unix technology don't cut it for peoples' desktops.On top of that the developers are being paid to optimize it for servers thus making stuff like video a bad experience. Everyone thinks dependencies and command lines are obsolete and don't want to deal with them. Face it, you need a new kernel/OS that will always be for desktops and not another unix clone. ReactOS fulfills those needs, but it probably won't be done in the time it would take to make a new OS from scratch.
(and no, you can never do what apple does because no one has control of what a "desktop" is, thus it will always be a randomly thrown together dependency mess on linux.)
Edited 2008-10-05 23:16 UTC