In my experience, Ubuntu doesn't run well on Atom. Perceived performance is far inferior to, say a $260 Nexus 7. Even if I knew someone who wanted a low-end des

In my experience, Ubuntu doesn't run well on Atom. Perceived performance is far inferior to, say a $260 Nexus 7. Even if I knew someone who wanted a low-end desktop, I would not recommend they support this project because of the enormous performance disparity between the two possible processor families (Atom vs. Celeron). If the project were to come to fruition, and you ended up with an Atom, it would be enormously disappointing. And let's face it, these days, if you're not willing to put together a desktop (which you can trivially do at this price point assuming you're willing to make the same price/performance tradeoffs), you're probably not in the market for a desktop, but rather a laptop or a tablet. That's just where the market is at these days.