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OK, that's it. Time to rant.
Acer, Dell, HP, EEPC and all the other netbook manufacturers seem to be succeeding where Microsoft failed. Netbooks are killing Linux. Seriously. I have yet to see a netbook come out with anything like a normal Linux distro. They are ALL crippled in some fundamental way that leaves users frustrated with Linux. Either they can't figure out the basic functioning of the sytesm or software doesn't install or some bit of hardware doesn't work right and nobody can figure out how to fix it. Since many netbook users are new to Linux, they have a very dim understanding of the differences between distros, so they simply assume that Linux sucks, because they have Linux on their netbook and it sucks.
It is time for netbook manufacturers to cut out using these half-baked, moronic, hard-to-use and largely unsupported distros and just go with something reasonably mainstream. Take Linpus. PLEASE! Why in the world would Acer go through the trouble of developing Linpus when they could just use Red Hat or Fedora? And why did Dell have to cripple Ubuntu with the moronic lpia architecture? And why would anybody with even a minuscule fraction of a brain take the console out of a Linux distro?
Once again it has been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that hardware manufacturers are completely and totally incapable of creating even a marginally usable OS. Unfortunately, this time Linux as a whole will pay the price.
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