In 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 distribu

In 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.