Sorry, but I do not agree with your statement that people would choose Linux desktops.
Perhaps if Wine was more polished and complete.
Out of the four people I know who bought netbooks with Linux preinstalled, three of them replaced Linux with a Windows XP install and were much happier.
Posted May 17, 2012 17:46 UTC (Thu) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784)
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And I'll bet the fourth flattened theirs and replaced the delivered Linux distro with a decent one. I don't know about the other netbook lines, but I do know that the Linux distro that Asus used on the Eee range was awful.