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Re:Explaining Windows 8 PC Sales Over the Holidays by dasil003 on Saturday January 05, 2013 @04:11PM (#5014074)
I get the poetic justice part, but explain how netbooks shipping with Linux would have kept them relevant?
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Re:Explaining Windows 8 PC Sales Over the Holidays by Toshio on Saturday January 05, 2013 @04:18PM (#5014096)
Linux would have kept netbooks relevant by keeping them usable. It turned out netbooks are powerful enough to run a browser, an IM app and a few widgets, but as soon as you throw AV software on top of that, they screech to a halt.
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Re:Explaining Windows 8 PC Sales Over the Holidays by raverbashing on Saturday January 05, 2013 @04:56PM (#5014216)
Yes, but

Shipped versions of Linux were simply AWFUL

Even Ubuntu "netbook edition" was terrible! It needed a good video card to run (and compatible drivers, etc) meaning it was a crapshoot.

What MS could have done is kept licensing Windows XP for them, which was good instead of "Vista" and then 7

So yes, if I get a netbook I'm customizing my linux installation, because default ones are bad.

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Re:Explaining Windows 8 PC Sales Over the Holidays by justincormack on Saturday January 05, 2013 @05:57PM (#5014368)
Ubuntu netbook was pretty decent compared to the shit that came with them.
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Re:Explaining Windows 8 PC Sales Over the Holidays by yuhong on Sunday January 06, 2013 @09:27PM (#5018910)
They did keep licensing XP for them.
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