I have an XO laptop (One Laptop Per Child project). It ships with its own Linux interface called Sugar, which is awful.
After a lot of time and effort I was able to install Ubuntu. It took me learning a lot of programming and going back to command lines (reminded me of my DOS days).
It's still pretty awful. I know a big part of that is the cursor is too small to see and the keys are really too small to use. Of course, these are XO-specific issues.
I have a new desktop and a new netbook and I'm running Windows 7 on both. I'm finding Windows 7 to be pretty good so far. The version for the Netbook is called Starter, which is really a misnomer since it's a full version, just designed for a netbook.
(Though I still had to use command lines to find my MAC addresses for them, so even Windows hasn't said goodbye to command lines).
So far, the biggest pain using Windows 7 is that it's hard to Google it. XP and Vista are easy search terms. But "7" is not a good search term and even "windows 7" in quotes turns up a lot of useless results. Clearly Microsoft didn't consider search engines optimization when they named it.
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Date: 2010-07-29 06:22 pm (UTC)After a lot of time and effort I was able to install Ubuntu. It took me learning a lot of programming and going back to command lines (reminded me of my DOS days).
It's still pretty awful. I know a big part of that is the cursor is too small to see and the keys are really too small to use. Of course, these are XO-specific issues.
I have a new desktop and a new netbook and I'm running Windows 7 on both. I'm finding Windows 7 to be pretty good so far. The version for the Netbook is called Starter, which is really a misnomer since it's a full version, just designed for a netbook.
(Though I still had to use command lines to find my MAC addresses for them, so even Windows hasn't said goodbye to command lines).
So far, the biggest pain using Windows 7 is that it's hard to Google it. XP and Vista are easy search terms. But "7" is not a good search term and even "windows 7" in quotes turns up a lot of useless results. Clearly Microsoft didn't consider search engines optimization when they named it.