Netbooks
When the netbook first arrived Linux was pretty much the only OS the hardware was capable of supporting (the original Psion "Netbook" was more a statement of intent that the genuine article). Its first flush of success was stifled by typical M$ tactics - leaning on manufacturers and outlets alike to pull their Linux toys or lose their M$ franchise, bringing out shite "prototypes" with impossibly unreasonable spec sheets, throwing sueballs at anybody who told tales, etc.
Now, 20 years down the line, M$ have finally reached a convergence of hardware performance and software streamlining that makes it sort of do-able. Meanwhile that same evolutionary curve is delivering a second wave of Linux kernels in Google's "Chromebook" netbooks that leave this shite in the dust every which way imaginable and some that aren't.
Only a poo icon can express what M$ have created, so here's the next best thing.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
