Asus "Slaps Linux In the Face" (with the help of M$)
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl.../05/28/0321251
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Hehehe, that site makes me lol ! Seriously, I thought it was joke at first, but I had to look it up and see if it was true. |
You've got to be kidding!
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Guess I won't be buying anything from Asus after all! |
After reading this, I just wanted to say that I decided not to order that laptop from Asus. I also will not be using a Asus motherboard on my nect desktop build.
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Perhaps Jeremy should consider putting a big flashy "Boycott Asus" banner on the home page with a link to this article. Yeah, I'm :mad:! |
Well, I don't blame them all that much ... I mean who can resist a large lump sum to screw over Linux and promote Window$ ? Guess not Asus ... A$U$.
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That's my :twocents: |
Don't blame Asus! If you read the comments after the article, you'll see the site is owned by a private individual who just happens to have the same name as a Microsoft employee…
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And ASUS does link to it from their UK site: http://www.asus.co.uk/eeepc/1008HA/features.html |
Well, on my Asus F5RL laptop, Slackware (and a few other distros I've tried) seems to run better than XP Pro.
P.S. For example, Firefox takes about three times as long to open on XP than it does on any Linux distro. |
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Personally, I'll most likely stick with those in the future. At least they don't have a BS "Works better with Windows" website. Cheers |
Don't worry, everything will be fine after Microsoft releases the Windows 7 version for netbooks that ONLY runs three applications at a time. If you want to run more applications then you have to buy a more expensive version of Windows 7.
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http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/05...tion?art_pos=4 |
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Yeah, who can trust M$, they might change it back at the last minute. Well for sure I won't be using it or any of their other products ... in fact I haven't used M$ $oftware for about 4 years on any of my computers.
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I didn't check out the site before just now. I imagined the site would just contain some "facts that have a difference of opinion with the truth" and a "install windows howto".
It has very little content. It is a background image and a flash video. (maybe the content works better with windows) They only hammer on the dogma that almost every electronics device, cell phone,... comes with windows drivers. Then they implicitly mention better compatibility for word documents and msn, but I have to read between the lines to see that message. There also is a slight mention of third party computer programs only working with windows. In my opinion, they putted most stress on smallest problem. Most devices use standards that linux distributions support. There are exceptions, and if you own one of them, you aren't happy with a linux-only laptop (but I had the same problem with an old printer and windows XP). The word document compatibility is a white lie: the ASUS site says it comes with a 60 day trial version of MS Works. MSN for windows always had and always will have some features that pidgin, amsn,... won't support. I have no idea how much these features are used by the non-tech user. About running third-party apps: well, it is true. Stupid-little-shareware-program-from-the-net probably doesn't run on linux. We cannot blame Microsoft for building a one-sided "propaganda" site about their product. We can blame ASUS for stopping to ship linux preloaded on their netbooks. I don't know if they did that, but on the site mentioned by H_TeXMeX_H, only XP is mentioned as the OS. Linux has some advantages: big collection of freely available quality software, better on underpowered hardware, less malware targeted at the platform (for now). Not every netbook distro shared these advantages because they were simplified. Therefor I would only recommend linux on a netbook to someone who'd be comfortable using another distro on it. ASUS thinks the same, and it has chosen to accept a bribe from MS in the process. I'm angry for that too. But we have to be bigger than that. Now we know linux on a netbook is possible, and in some cases the best choice. But some people use a netbook as their only computer. In that case only linux isn't the best choice. As dual boot config is. I see it this way: ASUS chose to make linux installation on their netbooks a community effort. They also decided to take a bribe from MS. I think the second discission was made because of the first, not the other way around. I suggest the community keeps linux running on the netbooks. And for the damages done by ASUS I ask a website run by ASUS where the community can post its info about their effort. If they start selling hardware that's incompatible with linux, that would make me _really_ mad. For now, they are a few steps down on my list of vendors to buy hardware from, but they're still on it. |
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