Comments on: Asus Dumps Linux From The Eee

By: Roger

Roger — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:05:08 +0000

Is it a surprise? For almost 20 years, Linux has proven unable, time after time, to gain the trust of computer users.

Why would this time be different? I’m amazed they keep banging their head against the wall and kicking the same dead horse. Linux is not for consumer computing. Period.

By: Marjolein Katsma

Marjolein Katsma — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:38:16 +0000

There is a market for Linux netbooks – and those who want one will now not even consider Asus any more (so their stats will become true by selection).

See also my Open letter to Asus: http://blog.marjoleinkatsma.com/its-better-with-windows-heres-why-not

By: p morton

p morton — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:54:12 +0000

Shan’t bother, thanks.

By: Brent

Brent — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:47:48 +0000

I purchased an Asus EE and I found their choice of Linux OS to be clunky and limited. I put Ubuntu Netbook remix on it and I love it. So that was big part of the problem IMO.

By: Debianero

Debianero — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:58:19 +0000

@Abe, of course M$ has most of the OEM market catched by the testicles.

By: Abe

Abe — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:56:19 +0000

“Then HP and Dell came along and said ‘Why are you buying Asus, with a small hard drive? Buy ours with a big hard drive.’”

“Other vendors offered netbooks with XP, and Asus began losing market share, said Swatton. As a smaller company whose brand is less well-known, Asus had no choice but to follow the market, producing more fully-featured and expensive netbooks”

Couldn’t they offer both Linux & XP and let the consumers have a choice to purchase what they like?

Did they have to stop selling with Linux? they sure didn’t have to.

MS must have made an offer they couldn’t refuse and the heck with the any choice for consumers.

I was planning to buy from Asus but not after this news. For me personally, Acer Aspire one is much more attractive now.