Asus Slaps Linux In the Face

vigmeister writes "From Techgeist, 'Linux just got a major slap in the face today from Asus. One of the highlights of Linux going mainstream was the wildly popular Asus Eee PC preinstalled with a customized Linux distro geared towards web applications. While I personally never got what the big deal was, I was still happy for all the Linux people out there waiting for this day, but it looks like the cause for celebration won't be lasting much longer. Asus and Microsoft have teamed up and have made a site called 'It's Better With Windows.' The page touts how easy it is to get up and ready with Windows on an Asus Eee PC, while slyly stating that you won't have to deal with an 'unfamiliar environment' and 'major compatibility issues.' While it is silly to state such a thing since Asus built the Linux distribution specifically for the Eee PC, I give Microsoft two points for snarky comments.'"

I agree

[ciderVisor]

It is better with Windows.

Re:I agree

[Undy]

Define "it"

Re:I agree

[Anonymous Coward]

...and a cup of coffee and a rocking chair just beside it, admiring the morning sun.

Re:I agree

[SpamBot 0wner]

Everything works better with Windows. And the best part is, the built-in Windows Defender and Windows Firewall mean that you don't need to buy a separate anti-virus or personal firewall application like you would for some toy OS that didn't have those built in.

Re:How much money changed hands?

[PopeRatzo]

And so we put it in the same state as Washington. Now, I'm guessing this is a PR company and we have a perfect match of Arbirtron Ad agency listing Michael Sharp as Manager, Agency & Advertiser Services for several different regions of the US [arbitron.com].

Excellent work.

Now can you do something about the Lindbergh Kidnapping?

I will Continue to Buy Asus

[Anonymous Coward]

Because nothing is sweeter then fanboy tears.

-Calbrenar

Re:I agree

[ciderVisor]

My sig is a joke. This thread was too good an opportunity to waste. Hopefully someone will be clued up enough to mod me funny.

Re:Dear Linux fans,

[Anonymous Coward]

...stop being such whiny cunts.

Love,
That percentage of the world that doesn't want to have to compile an OS and install a virtual box just to fucking play Half-Life.

Dear Microsoft employee
Please build an OS that does not suck.

Love
The percentage of the population that did not get infected with Conficker.

Re:Meh

[Anonymous Coward]

Then you are obviously not a Linux user to begin with.

Re:I agree

[S.O.B.]

I'd rather use an OS that doesn't have a security model that resemble Swiss cheese requiring that it ship with an anti-virus application.

Re:That's a damn shame

[DoofusOfDeath]

This website is such a hack-job. I can't believe MS or Asus was involved. The video player is FlowPlayer, the tracking uses Google Analytics, the fonts are all wrong for a MS job.

They didn't. But we are meant to think they did. These trackers are by Google Analytics. The MS advertisement execs always use a single tracker to hide their numbers.

And these talking points, too trollish for MS advertisement execs. Only Apple Fanbois are so precise.

Re:Mod parent up!

[coryking]

Unless of course somebody hacked into Asus's website and added that link. You can tell it was hacked because if you play the video on itsbetterwithwindows.com frame by frame, there is one frame in the middle where if you squint you can see the reflection from a sign saying "p0wn3d by D4 Cr3w". A quick search of Google will turn up the fact that "D4 Cr3w" are the same folk who faked the moon landing in the 60's.

By the way, cattle mutilations are up.

Re:Dear Linux fans,

[Vintermann]

"A) Slashdot has a very vocal group of whiney emotionally reactive girls"

You, you... you INSENSITIVE CLOD!

Re:That's a damn shame

[Anonymous Coward]

I decided never to buy ASUS again, a long time ago.

I bought one of their passively cooled graphics cards, and since I run a water cooled system, I wanted to make sure that it did not depend overly on ambient airflow, and that the temperature readings in the included app was sufficiently accurate. (They didn't seem to be).

I researched these topics well, before carefully wording a few succinct questions, that I emailed to their support. After two weeks I got a reply that not only failed to answer all my questions, but also said "Please! In the future, read the FAQ before emailing support! Please!".

Note the redundant please. Well the FAQ says fuck all about water cooled systems and ambient airflow.

So, ASUS can go fuck them selves up and down the block for all I care.

Re:Meh

[Sponge Bath]

Xandros can jump off a cliff.

Is that a feature or a bug?

I'm sorry...

[XDirtypunkX]

I'm sorry, I thought this was a kdawson post.

Re:I agree

[BobGod8]

Sex of course.

That way you're getting screwed that much better.

Re:That's a damn shame

[K. S. Kyosuke]

Registrant: Michael Sharp

His actual name is Microsoft Visual Michael#, but he was not able to register under that name due to technical restrictions.

Re:hey Asus

[Anonymous Coward]

There's only a couple industries that refer to their customers as "users". One is software.