Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 31st May 2009 10:44 UTC
Back when the whole netbook thing started, Asus was king of the hill with a focus on netbooks with Linux pre-installed. Since they were kind of popular, it didn't take Microsoft long to start working together with Asus to 'port' Windows XP to the Asus line of netbooks, and with that, to other netbooks as well. The result was that Linux netbooks are now harder to find for many people. While Dell committed itself to Linux on netbooks, Asus has decided to just skip the first date and jump right into bed with Microsoft.
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2007-08-16
I own an EeePC 900, and I tried installing windows on it via a pendrive. I managed to do it, but I wouldn't recommend that experience to joe sixpack that doesn't have a clue about computers.
On the other hand, all linux distros that I tried pretty much worked out of the box with all hardware supported. It's now happily running ubuntu. They can keep windows.