Lenovo: Linux has no future on netbooks

linux and my mother

furthermore.... I hardly expect my mother well into
her 70's to become linux savvy.
windows has its place and unix/linux has its...
bigtime lord knows the internet itself is run by
unix and cant run without it. tootles

Sorry to hear about your mother

Sorry to hear about your mother, hardy. If she had a child who saw the picture a little more in focus, maybe her life would be better.

One of the most popular age segments who ASK me for MEPIS 8.0 (OK... they don't know the distro name, but they also didn't know which version of Windows they were using!) is the retired population.

They LOVE no virus worries.
They LOVE the simple Synaptic maintenance.
They LOVE how it just works.

In fact... I know of more than a handful of OVER-80 year old people using MEPIS 8.0 Linux and loving it.

They were not Windows savvy.
They are not Linux savvy.
They just like how it works.

So what's your problem?

My Mom uses Linux, why can't you?

My mother, well into her 70's and not a NASA tech enjoys using Linux very much than you.

No annoying MS subscription fee, no viruses, spyware, etc. A clear easy to use desktop, a word processor and a Good browser.

Linux gave her what she wanted, A fast stable and secure system that she doesn't have to mess with or worry about. Not what MS wanted , bloatware constant updates, subscription to AV software lots of $$$$$$$$$ for a SLOW insecure and bloated pile of @#$@.

If your of the OPINION that Vista is easier to use than Linux, it's doubtful that you have actually USED LINUX anytime in the past two years.

I work on and Use both. Linux passed MS in ease of use a few years ago. Sorry your arguments are VERY out of date.

Really?

does your Mom Adds and Removes software on her Linux distro (AKA:Manage software)???

Cause i bet a lot of moms (even grandmom's) can do that easily in "windoze".

Now, i bet that the truth is that everytime she wants a software installed, say aMSN for example, she needs to ask you (that knows how it works) to do it for her (you know the dependencies and so on)... and even if she uses tech as the OpenSuSE's "1-click install" (that solves dependencies problem) she'll need you to remove the application.

Oh and CNR seams kind of dead, Mint has VERY few applications available in his "easy to Add/remove tech" and PC-BSD suffers from the same problem in his PBI innovation... so... i guess we are kind of stuck in one of the most important details of an OS: the ability to add and remove 3rd party software ;)

It's truth, Windows isn't as good as Linux! It's a fact and i agree with that!
But Win is a LOT more easy to use, A Lot more user-friendly, has A LOT (and a mean REALLY A LOT!) more software - which means you can do A LOT MORE with it.

It has also a lot more virus... but if linux was used as much as win is it would had a lot more virus as well... not as many as Win, i'm sure, since it is a lot more secure, but it would for sure have more that it has (which is none - no matter what anti-virus companies say). Linux ain't perfect! In fact it is almost as "imperfect" as Windows... but in completely different areas.

Synaptic

Just ONE word: Synaptic!

MS misses the boat

I guess all the ARM based netbooks that are being produced are just for us tech guys. Hmm I seem to recall a time when that was said about all PC's.

Like it or not the MAJORITY of netbooks run Linux as MS missed the boat.

No amount of MS funded studies or even giving XP away for $4.00 will allow them to catch up as Windows 7 runs like crap on a netbook and doesn't run at all on the faster cheaper and less power hungry ARM chips.

Take a look at this Touch screen baby!

http://techpulse360.com/2009/03/02/demo-09-touch-book-is-first-arm-netbook-tablet/

RE:MS misses the boat

Linux is an awesome OS but lets not get carried away.

"Like it or not the MAJORITY of netbooks run Linux as MS missed the boat".

Dude, where did you get that from? I guess you got that information from these sites:
http://www.liliputing.com/2009/03/linux-loses-more-netbook-market-share.html

http://www.i4u.com/article23707.html

Before you start being paranoid, I dual boot and even use linux like 85% of the times. But lets face reality. Linux is not as user friendly as Windows period. Give your computer to your dad or grand dad and tell him...

"Do you need to install that your favourite program? Add a repository first by entering it in the /etc/apt/sources.list file, and then go to the command line and type sudo apt-get update and then sudo apt-get install yourfavouriteprogram".

That will be different from

"Do you need to install your favourite program? Google for the program, download the program and double click on it to install"

One thing people should know that, Microsoft taking a lion share of market share is not because it is superior to the other OS, it is because of their marketing and their OS is some what easier for people to deal with. Some people hate Microsoft because of Jealousy some hate them as an act of ethics.

Some people hate Google because they take up large percentage of market share when it comes to search.

I keep wondering why do people keep breaking their head over all these, do you get paid to keep these arguments on and on?