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The eee PC and Aspire One, which I believe are two of the best-selling netbooks, both have horrible distros. I gather netbooks were targeted for doing internet
by philh 17y ago
The eee PC and Aspire One, which I believe are two of the best-selling netbooks, both have horrible distros. I gather netbooks were targeted for doing internet and office, so the disros are optimised for doing that and nothing else. If it turns out most people want to do more with their netbook (which the hardware is certainly capable of), it's no surprise that they would avoid linux when linux makes it difficult for them to do what they want.
Does any netbook ship with a non-crippled linux distro? I'd like to see sales figures for that, especially compared to a windows version on the same hardware.
- skwiddor 17y agoI have an EEEPC 901 with Xandros. At first I was quite enamoured with it's distro but it's not that great. The updater fills it up with updates until it runs out of system disk space and I have to reset it, even though I have a 20Gb version (the sysem space is tiny [I don't have it with me so I can't look]). The scheduler isn't very good, scrolling on Firefox comes in bursts and often I think the thing has locked up. Firefox is probably not the best choice because of its bloat (ironic from the light-weight mozilla!). That said, when I ran Plan 9 in Qemu on it, I didn't find any such problems. Web browsing on my G1 is a much nicer experience. I could seriously see Android being a good fit with my EeePc.