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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Windows has been based on the NT kernel for 8 years, not DOS.
If you want open source operating systems to have a future, you as a community must be able to take an objective view of them and compare them to competitors. Until that happens, there is no chance of Linux ever gaining significant market share because of its shortcomings. The previous comment being buried is only proof that Linux is not ready because most of the community behind it cannot act rationally, or do things like admit weakness. If they had, the average user wouldn't have to put up with nearly as many annoyances because something would have been done about them.
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Most of these Netbook Linux variants don't even expose the *possibility* of having a console. You would have to be an advanced Linux user to even get one. Dependencies are handled by the App installer.
Video support is great. It comes with most codecs you might encounter. Quite the opposite with Windows, which only comes with the damn Microsoft codecs that no one uses anyway, so every time for the first month you try to play a video you have to search and install yet another player that comes with the codec you need.
Please, if you don't know what you are talking about, keep your second hand opinions for yourself.
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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