Sorry Linux
posted on 16:03 11/27/2009 by planetidiot.com
We received our free HP Mini 110 netbook for signing up with FiOS today and I was looking forward to wiping it and putting Linux on it. I tried about 30 times to make a bootable SD or USB stick, with the Ubuntu Netbook Remix "usb-creator" program and with Eeebuntu's "unetbootin" program and had no luck at all. I would get to a crappy looking boot up menu that would just loop "booting in 10 seconds" over and over, or else some other error trying to boot. posted on 16:03 11/27/2009 by planetidiot.com
Finally I found this page and redownloaded the netbook remix iso. Finally I got the thing to boot of the USB key. Keep in mind it takes forever to copy all this stuff to the USB stick. I figured I'd give it a test run and if it worked out I'd install it.
No sooner than I got the thing online did the desktop freeze. Having no linux experience whatsoever, this was a really bad first impression. But I'll try anything twice so I rebooted it. Except now when I choose to boot off the USB, it just ignores me and goes to Windows. I really thought this would be painless for some reason, but I would have been better off just spending the day removing the bloatware from XP. Sorry linux, I'll try you again in a few more years. Maybe by then it'll "just work".
Comments:
18:17 11/30/2009 Bart sez:
In my opinion, this is the problem with an open-source operating system. No comprehensive direction, and no top-down focus on user-experience.
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