2009/01/02
Problems with the Linux desktop
(Update: in retrospect, I have realized that this article is perhaps not so well written. Expect something more useful and coherent soon!)
Linux seems like the perfect solution for the new brand of portable PCs, netbooks. It's efficient, requires few resources, and can run most if not all of the programs one usually runs on such small computers - word processing, email, web browsing, and so on. Large, complex software packages that require Windows to run perform abysmally on low-power computers like netbooks, so effectively the need to run Windows is nullified.
Why, then, do consumers (and reviewers!) choose Windows over Linux for netbooks?