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Linux For Housewives. XP For Geeks.

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the or-just-cheapskates dept.

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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  1. BLASPHEMY! by elrous0 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Housewives with Linux??!?! Geeks with Windows?!?! Dogs and cats living together?!?!? MASS HYSTERIA!!

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    1. Re:BLASPHEMY! by alx5000 · · Score: 5, Funny

      My mom's been using it for ages, I don't really get all the hassle now...

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    2. Re:BLASPHEMY! by pembo13 · · Score: 5, Funny

      I have to say, a stable Linux distro can be pretty boring. I like Fedora though, they throw in little quirks every now and then to make it all interesting.

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    3. Re:BLASPHEMY! by dave420 · · Score: 4, Funny

      You can upgrade from Windows 3.11 any time you want, fyi.

    4. Re:BLASPHEMY! by rohan972 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Have you been a housewife all this time without realizing it?

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    5. Re:BLASPHEMY! by immcintosh · · Score: 4, Funny

      Yeah, but then he'd really be in trouble.

  2. I 4 1 by Mipoti+Gusundar · · Score: 5, Funny

    I 4 1 amd welcomming our new script bashing apron wearing apple pie bakeing overlady's!

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    1. Re:I 4 1 by Rinisari · · Score: 5, Funny

      I would mod that comment up if the spelling wasn't so terrible.

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    2. Re:I 4 1 by sensei+moreh · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'd mod you up, but then I couldn't comment on your post :)

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    3. Re:I 4 1 by Stanistani · · Score: 5, Funny

      I will mod you up as soon as I'm done baking some cookies.

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  3. Re:or course by MBGMorden · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yep. Because obviously somebody can't like or buy ANYTHING big/fast/cool these days without it being to make up for "inadequacies".

    Do you do the reverse? I know I don't look at the guy pulling out of the shoebox apartment (old Pentium 75 visible through the windows) in a rusted out Geo Metro and think "Man, I bet he's hung.".

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  4. ZDNet confirms it... by sootman · · Score: 4, Funny

    2008 will be the year of XP on the desktop!

    Er, laptop. whatever.

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  5. Re:or course by sm62704 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Cheer up, young fellow, and read A Nerd's Guide to Getting Laid.

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  6. Re:Hmm.. by Corporate+Troll · · Score: 5, Funny

    Exploits of a Mom. XKCD has a comic for everything ;-)

  7. MMmmmm... Housewives!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Linux... housewives? Only cheesy pr0n can result. "I'm here to repair your Linux install ma'am. OOohh, I see the problem right here. I just need to $unzip this and $touch that. Now let's $fsck!" ~Bow chica wow wow~

    1. Re:MMmmmm... Housewives!! by rmadmin · · Score: 5, Funny

      MMM.. Milfs on linux..

      I think we may have spawned a whole new genre of geeky pr0n. Personally I'll wait for "I_banged_my_friends_sister_while_she_recompiled_her_kernel.mpg". :)

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    2. Re:MMmmmm... Housewives!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      you forgot about finger and mount

    3. Re:MMmmmm... Housewives!! by everett · · Score: 5, Funny

      Tad bit nuts, or the inventor of a filesystem with a russian bride. (Too soon?)

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    4. Re:MMmmmm... Housewives!! by Hordeking · · Score: 5, Funny

      MMM.. Milfs on linux.. I think we may have spawned a whole new genre of geeky pr0n. Personally I'll wait for "I_banged_my_friends_sister_while_she_recompiled_her_kernel.mpg". :)

      I recompiled your mom's kernel! Oh, and I have root access to your sister. BAM!

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    5. Re:MMmmmm... Housewives!! by tgd · · Score: 4, Funny

      Back in my day that took 18 hours... and of course back then I was lucky to take 18 seconds ;)

    6. Re:MMmmmm... Housewives!! by sohp · · Score: 5, Funny

      I haven't heard of milfs. How does it compare to jfs or reiserfs?

    7. Re:MMmmmm... Housewives!! by psergiu · · Score: 5, Funny

      Do not put reiserfs and milfs on the same box. The former one will get lost.

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    8. Re:MMmmmm... Housewives!! by digitalsolo · · Score: 5, Funny

      I belive you mean the latter (milfs) will get lost. The former (reiserfs) will simply lose all references to what happened to the latter (milfs).

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    9. Re:MMmmmm... Housewives!! by gad_zuki! · · Score: 5, Funny

      No, actually the latter will be lost for a few months until the former reveals its location but the retrieved data will be pretty corrupt.

  8. Re:Windows by pla · · Score: 5, Funny

    But, alas, that day has come and now I have no clue how to troubleshoot Windows anymore.

    Silly, you don't troubleshoot Windows anymore.

    First, you reboot.

    If that fails to fix the problem, you roll back to the last restore point.

    If that fails, you reinstall from the recovery partition.

    And if even that fails, you call it a hardware failure and buy a new one.



    Troubleshoot... Kids these days, sheesh.

  9. Re:Hmm.. by stranger_to_himself · · Score: 4, Funny

    Exploits of a Mom. XKCD has a comic for everything ;-)

    Yeah and it's always that one.

  10. Get back in the kitchen! by jeebusroxors · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wimins? On computers? What will they try next....

  11. Re:It's a No Brainer! :-) by neildiamond · · Score: 5, Funny

    Housewives are used to getting the products that have the best cost-benefit ratio.

    You aren't married are you?

  12. Re:hmm by foniksonik · · Score: 5, Funny

    uh... you're supposed to get a Mac if you want to feel like an elitist-asshole... duh. Preferably a Macbook Air with solid state drive... $5000 or so... then install Linux on it.

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  13. Re:Hmm.. by cmacb · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe they confuse geeks that are buying XP with idiots?

    A perfectly natural thing to do.

  14. Re:Not sure it applies here as much by jahudabudy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Thank you! I get so tired of people bugging me about "Which Linux distro do you use?" when all I want to do is bite the head off this here chicken.

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