Ubuntu? I don't understand what you are talking about.
You mean they should have had UNR all ready and done as soon as ASUS released the first Eee PCs running Linpus/Xandros/whatever locked down crap (which lots of people maligned, apparently with good reason), so people could upgrade? Or what, exactly, do you mean?
As you probably know, people prefer to have an OS (Win XP) very inadequate for the form factor than to have anything else, be it regular desktop Linux (also inadequate), be it netbook remixes (good). Inertia, ignorance, sometimes even legitimate need, the regular stuff. So even if UNR had been available, and even shipped already installed and configured, from day one, most people would still go back running to mommy. Not to mention the less charitable aspects of the situation... like XP being nearly free just to kill Linux, and other arm-twisting shenanigans we all came to know and love over the decades. But that's a slightly different story.
If ASUS and other pioneers of the now defunct netbook had worked with Canonical from the beginning, I guess I would see your point -- why aren't you also blaming, say, Fedora, by the way? But being control freaks, companies decided each one to create their own crappy, locked down adaptation of the Linux desktops available, so they wouldn't cannibalize their more profitable big machines. It backfired anyway, and that's why we saw the netbook die quite a while ago to be replaced by small, overpriced (for their capabilities) laptops.
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Ubuntu? I don't understand what you are talking about.
You mean they should have had UNR all ready and done as soon as ASUS released the first Eee PCs running Linpus/Xandros/whatever locked down crap (which lots of people maligned, apparently with good reason), so people could upgrade? Or what, exactly, do you mean?
As you probably know, people prefer to have an OS (Win XP) very inadequate for the form factor than to have anything else, be it regular desktop Linux (also inadequate), be it netbook remixes (good). Inertia, ignorance, sometimes even legitimate need, the regular stuff. So even if UNR had been available, and even shipped already installed and configured, from day one, most people would still go back running to mommy. Not to mention the less charitable aspects of the situation... like XP being nearly free just to kill Linux, and other arm-twisting shenanigans we all came to know and love over the decades. But that's a slightly different story.
If ASUS and other pioneers of the now defunct netbook had worked with Canonical from the beginning, I guess I would see your point -- why aren't you also blaming, say, Fedora, by the way? But being control freaks, companies decided each one to create their own crappy, locked down adaptation of the Linux desktops available, so they wouldn't cannibalize their more profitable big machines. It backfired anyway, and that's why we saw the netbook die quite a while ago to be replaced by small, overpriced (for their capabilities) laptops.