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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RE[2]: Simple fact of the matter ...
by Alleister on Tue 7th Oct 2008 14:22
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You know, even if Linux had 0.5% market share, that is still a big amount of users. What do i care if my neighbor turns blue in fear if Linux is mentioned? Linux does everything that I want it to do and does it a lot better than Windows without annoying me with WGA, incompatibilities and all that for free instead of an ridicules price tag - Vista Ultimate retail costs $439 in EU... one would have to be an complete idiot to pay that load of money for such an insanely flawed product.
So even if Linux market share would be 0.1%... that is still enough people to get great support and enough developers. To me, Windows is dead on the desktop.
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2005-11-15
No there is a real serious issue. You buy the computer. You surf the Internet. You download a utility. You run the utility and it says, "sorry, but this can't be run since it is Linux."
Customer: "huh I thought this was Windows."
I have completely given up with Linux on the desktop. Heck OSX went from nothing and has factors more adoption than Linux. Linux on the desktop is DEAD...
On the server, well that is a completely different story... There I would argue that Windows is pretty braindead....