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A while ago, I couldn't buy a new netbook with Linux from Amazon -- which prides itself on earning money on "the long tail". Most of the netbook market was Lin
by berntb 17y ago
A while ago, I couldn't buy a new netbook with Linux from Amazon -- which prides itself on earning money on "the long tail".
Most of the netbook market was Linux a year or two earlier.
I really doesn't doubt the articles I've read about Microsoft leaning on ASUS et al.
- DenisM 17y agoThe customer sat for Linux netbooks was horrible and return rates were sky-high. Geeks like linux, but normal people prefer convenience which often times means nothing more than familiarity.
- berntb 17y agoNote the point about long tail in what you commented on... Google for it.
- krakensden 17y agoIn defense of Linux, the vendor linuxes on those netbooks were generally a terribly broken custom user interface on top of a broken and badly hacked up distribution. They could have done much better by asking Canonical or Novell to write the last drivers they needed and using Ubuntu or SuSe.
- rbanffy 17y agoThat was one opinion. IIRC, about the same time, Dell commented customer satisfaction was about the same on both sides.