Linux For Housewives. XP For Geeks.

Talinom writes "ZDNet has an article sure to raise the hackles of any self-respecting geek. They report that housewives buying small laptops like the Asus EE are causing Linux usage for that demographic to spike. A reporter for Tech-On states that 'Retailers and contract manufacturers in Taiwan say that novice PC users there, like students and housewives, tend to buy the Linux version of the Eee PC701, while geeks go for Windows XP.'"

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Re:My girlfriend has got an eee

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh, phew. Despite all the previous Linux installations, none of them were usable. But now, this singular anecdote on Slashdot (a bastion of truth and free thought) has let us know that it is indeed usable. This is the year of Linux on the embedded device. (Just watch, someone is going to take that sentence and try to make it some sort of meaningful "rah rah rah" post with it.)

The Linux community will be having a party this Friday night. We're hoping to get three people to show up this time, and you're the guest of honor, LoneWolf666. We'll be naming our kernel installation scripts after you, after which we talk about our worst experiences using ndiswrapper. Lastly, we'll all sit down and remind ourselves of how much of a better person we are because we use a different operating system.