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Already been tried before

Macintoshtoffy 23rd Aug 2009

Anyone remember web appliances? Linux will only move ahead when
vendors realise that it is on their shoulders to bring a unique
experience to end users via their own distribution, and realise that
they have to do more than dumping an operating system on a piece of
hardware. The number of times I've seen Linux distributions dumped
onto a netbook with no effort spent making sure that the computer
sleeps and wakes up correctly, that the wireless driver is stable, that
all the components are fully supported.

It fails because OEM's simply don't care - they know if they cared (and
this applies to not only Linux integration but Windows as well), their
costs would rise to that of Apple overnight.