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RE: Netbook returns blamed on Linux 'teething problems'

Loverock Davidson 10th Oct 2008

Proving once again no one wants linux! The people at Canonical seem to be clueless about these netbook returns.

"Return rates are higher, but they're not high," he said. "Return rates are low. That they're higher than with Windows XP, a technology that has been around for 20 years, is understandable."

Return rate are higher but not that high? Just admit defeat already and close up your shop! XP has been around for 20 years either. Lets look at linux, its been around for 15 years and still hasn't made any inroads to anything computer related and people do not want it. With thinking like those of Canonical's its no surprise that linux is dying. These guys are delusional.

Lets look at the real problem of linux and why people do not want it. It is such a pain to configure and maintain. Lets check every software program installed on linux (all 500 of them because they don't give you a choice), then go to each vendor's website to see if the new version is available, try to find the download link amongst all the other text they have on the screen, download the source code, then bring up a terminal window where the user has to type in unknown commands to get the source to extract, then use some more obfuscated commands to compile the source and pray it compiles cleanly, then install it to whatever directory the application feels like installing it to since there is no standard for that, and the user has to find the executable file, run it and watch it seg fault and then create the kernel panic.

I won't mention the network issues where it takes hours to configure, or the sound issue of only playing one sound at a time. Going through all this trouble and linux still hasn't figured out why no one is using their OS. Sad. Very very sad.