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Doctor Smith
http://www.itwire.com/content/view/24700/1231/
"By October the story was different. MSI claimed Linux netbooks were being
returned four times as often as Windows netbooks. Their internal research
showed this could be attributed to consumers being turned off by an
operating system which was different to what they were used to."
People hate Linux when they try it.
No amount of "free" is able to overcome this.
"They then took it home, found they couldn¡¦t use it exactly like their home
desktop ¡V itself an unrealistic expectation ¡V and returned it, either
giving up or opting to spend more money to buy a Windows XP edition
instead."
If you think you hate Linux now, wait until you actually try it !!
"In my home country of Australia the present federal Government promised
laptops to school attendees during the election process.
Linux had the clear edge ¡V no other significant operating system can be
added without a licensing cost thrown in to the mix.
Yet, the winning solution chosen by the NSW Department of Education (DET)
was a Lenovo and Microsoft combination."
Sounds like the people in charge of making the decision actually tried to
use the Linux netbooks and gave up.
"Similarly, if the NSW Government won¡¦t tell me the hardware specs and
costings of the submissions they received then I decided I'll find out from
the vendors themselves.
My first replies came today from ASUS and Dell.
Marty Filipowski from Dell Corporate Communications first surprised me by
saying that Dell does not, in Australia and New Zealand, offer any ¡§mini
laptops¡¨ with Linux. I note Marty chose not to use the word netbook, but
more significantly, I¡¦m left amazed that Dell ¡V possibly the first major
brand to promote they were selling computers with Ubuntu Linux ¡V totally
ignore Linux in this region."
This is surprising?
Companies want to offer products that people are willing to buy.
Linux can't even be given away for FREE!
"When I asked why this was the case Marty advised Dell had been monitoring
the market and launched Dell Inspiron Mini products with ¡§the features in
demand by our customers.¡¨"
Like I said......
"Now, ASUS, to my mind, have been a pretty innovative company and are the
ones who boldly imagined that a low-cost low-powered system would have a
market. Yet, they surprised me even more than Dell.
Linda Vo from ASUS told me that ASUS¡¦ netbook sales are 95% Windows-based
and 5% Linux-based. "
Point is, despite what the freetards over in COLA will tell you, Linux
netbook sales dropped from 100 percent of the market to less than 5 percent
of the market once Windows versions were released.
Linux sucks.
Linux is a piker.
Average people just don't want Linux.
Exceptions exist of course, but they are not enough in number to make any
difference.
"By October the story was different. MSI claimed Linux netbooks were being
returned four times as often as Windows netbooks. Their internal research
showed this could be attributed to consumers being turned off by an
operating system which was different to what they were used to."
People hate Linux when they try it.
No amount of "free" is able to overcome this.
"They then took it home, found they couldn¡¦t use it exactly like their home
desktop ¡V itself an unrealistic expectation ¡V and returned it, either
giving up or opting to spend more money to buy a Windows XP edition
instead."
If you think you hate Linux now, wait until you actually try it !!
"In my home country of Australia the present federal Government promised
laptops to school attendees during the election process.
Linux had the clear edge ¡V no other significant operating system can be
added without a licensing cost thrown in to the mix.
Yet, the winning solution chosen by the NSW Department of Education (DET)
was a Lenovo and Microsoft combination."
Sounds like the people in charge of making the decision actually tried to
use the Linux netbooks and gave up.
"Similarly, if the NSW Government won¡¦t tell me the hardware specs and
costings of the submissions they received then I decided I'll find out from
the vendors themselves.
My first replies came today from ASUS and Dell.
Marty Filipowski from Dell Corporate Communications first surprised me by
saying that Dell does not, in Australia and New Zealand, offer any ¡§mini
laptops¡¨ with Linux. I note Marty chose not to use the word netbook, but
more significantly, I¡¦m left amazed that Dell ¡V possibly the first major
brand to promote they were selling computers with Ubuntu Linux ¡V totally
ignore Linux in this region."
This is surprising?
Companies want to offer products that people are willing to buy.
Linux can't even be given away for FREE!
"When I asked why this was the case Marty advised Dell had been monitoring
the market and launched Dell Inspiron Mini products with ¡§the features in
demand by our customers.¡¨"
Like I said......
"Now, ASUS, to my mind, have been a pretty innovative company and are the
ones who boldly imagined that a low-cost low-powered system would have a
market. Yet, they surprised me even more than Dell.
Linda Vo from ASUS told me that ASUS¡¦ netbook sales are 95% Windows-based
and 5% Linux-based. "
Point is, despite what the freetards over in COLA will tell you, Linux
netbook sales dropped from 100 percent of the market to less than 5 percent
of the market once Windows versions were released.
Linux sucks.
Linux is a piker.
Average people just don't want Linux.
Exceptions exist of course, but they are not enough in number to make any
difference.
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