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Originally Posted by mtd19
Okay, if you say so. However, I'm sure that most commercial software that is Windows only (with no open source alternative) is too powerful for a netbook even if Windows performs well. Games for example.
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Well, the most common thing I get asked about, by far, is whether or not Microsoft Office will run on a netbook. People want to use Word, and Word/Excel/PowerPoint all run just fine. OpenOffice also runs fine, but it doesn't seem to me to be any faster than Office so it's not like there's a speed advantage to open source software in that way. I haven't benchmarked OpenOffice on Linux vs. Word on Windows, but on my HP Mini 1000 Mobile Internet Edition (Linux) OpenOffice seems pretty sluggish. In fact, everything seems pretty sluggish.
People have also asked me about crazy things like running AutoCAD software on a netbook - technically it will all work (barring any hard-coded software limits), even though it would be painfully slow. People are really keen to push the limits of what a netbook can do, and it's always about their favourite software - their favourite
Windows software. The average person doesn't seem to care much about the operating system - they care about the software running on it.
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Originally Posted by mtd19
Windows command line is a PITA and Linux is much easier to use (heck I'm even comfortable on the Mac terminal because it's unix).
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Command line? That right there tells me we're speaking two different languages - 99.99% of people buying netbooks wouldn't know what the command line was if they were staring at it. I've never dropped to the command line on my Windows 7 netbook, and I rarely do it on my Vista desktop computers - and if I do, it's to do a ping or tracert, hardly anything fancy.
Anyway, I'm glad that Linux on a netbook works well for you - but I trust you realize that your needs are not typical for most consumers.
