The problem with Linux (Jolicloud sucks too)
Not sure if it's just me, but every time I get sucked into a new distro of Linux, with the promise that it will "revolutionize" my netbook experience, I get VERY excited and rush to download, awaiting the moment of install and first boot like the arrival of Santa to an 7 year old. This evening, I suffered through the two hour download of Jolicloud, after reading how "wonderful" it was and how "compatible" with my Acer Aspire One D150. Well, its not. And once again, I awoke Christmas morning to find that Santa does not exist (disclaimer for readers sharing this with the little ones, the real Santa DOES exist, he uses a Mac! LOL)
Here is what sucks about Linux distros. If the developer/programmer/assembler forgot to include something important, like the ability to close the freakin lid on the computer and have it freakin sleep (its called Sleep Linux people, not suspend. Suspend is what happens to bad children and Linux distros that smoke on school grounds), there is no way to fix this without a PHD in arcane Unix command line-fu. Can you say "Not ready for primetime"? No wonder Linux has made no (ZERO!!!!!!) inroads in the consumer market worth a crap. The whole running net apps fullscreen was cool, but I can't sleep the freaking computer. What a crock. Windows 7 is staying - not the fastest, but it works and that makes me happy on a Friday night when all I really want to do is watch TV and check/send email.
