Exactly. They should start installing Linux Mint and call it a day.
Fuck Microsoft.
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brokenwing@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Did the difference between you and Apple is Windows 11. The don’t have a crappy copilot or Edge hoarding 4GB in the background to show the weather.
Scrollone@feddit.it 1 day ago
qat@feddit.nl 1 day ago
Indeed. PC manufacturers should just invest in the Linux ecosystem.
djdarren@piefed.social 13 hours ago
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 10 hours ago
Unfortunately, these particular devices were kinda shit lol
djdarren@piefed.social 5 hours ago
Eh, I gather the Linux based ones were actually pretty cool. But 99% of netbooks ended up being underpowered mini laptops running XP, so were doomed to failure.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
EEEs were amazing! Not because of their performance or specs, but because they were a fully working compute for dirt cheap at only $199! Remember, these were released 5 years before the first Raspberry Pi. The original model of EEE with its 7" screen 512MB RAM and 4GB of slow SSD storage were plenty of compute for small tasks or portable applications. The cheapest fully functional laptop you could buy at retail those days would still cost you $800-$900 for a pretty horrible machine.
Linux was part of the secret sauce that made them successful because it meant they didn’t have to pay for an OEM Windows XP license.
kepix@lemmy.world 1 day ago
yet
Jrockwar@feddit.uk 1 day ago
That’s a big difference but not all. The sub-$1000 ultrabook sector has SO MUCH garbage, like Intel Celerons that stutter when you scroll down a web page designed in 2022+. Manufacturers are happy because they can sell rubbish and uncle John with no idea about computers will say “I want a laptop with 1 TB so it’s faster, and it must have free office 365 and an antivirus”…
So when someone puts a phone processor in a laptop and builds a chassis that isn’t a $5 extruded plastic shell, they panic because it still manages to be better in both benchmarks and real world use despite the paltry amount of RAM.