"Good Enough" Computers Are the Future

Posted by timothy on Wednesday April 22, 2009 @08:18AM from the adequate-for-light-word-processing-and-small-sums dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Over on the PC World blog, Keir Thomas engages in some speculative thinking. Pretending to be writing from the year 2025, he describes a world of 'Good Enough computing,' wherein ultra-cheap PCs and notebooks (created to help end-users weather the 'Great Recession' of the early 21st century) are coupled to open source operating systems. This is possible because even the cheapest chips have all the power most people need nowadays. In what is effectively the present situation with netbooks writ large, he sees a future where Microsoft is priced out of the entire desktop operating system market and can't compete. It's a fun read that raises some interesting points."

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Re:Smart enough... by Anonymous Coward · 2009-04-22 09:56 · Score: 0, Troll

I don't believe you. Ubuntu is unusable garbage compared to Windows.
Really. Don't take my word for it - download the Ubuntu live CD and try it. You'll run screaming back to Windows.
You're just a paid shill for Canonical. You don't really use Linux.