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    2 years ago

    I’d like netbooks to come back. That was a good idea (and sufficiently popular, and probably slaughtered due to some backstage pressure from Microsoft, cause those were often used with Linux, I even remember that some were sold with Linux).

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      2 years ago

      Netbooks were replaced by ultrabooks. Install Linux on one if you want.

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        2 years ago

        … usually produced by something like Packard Bell, and though cheap, still too expensive for their build quality, and weaker than Raspberry Pi, and with problematic hardware (which matters for Linux use).

        Still if not for the latter I’d buy one.