A journalist (Ed Zitron) purchased the bestselling laptop from Amazon — a $238 Acer Aspire 1 and wrote about his experience using it.
https://www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/
(If you reply with "they should've just installed <my favorite Linux distro> on it", I will assume that you didn't read the article.
The average person doesn't know how to install a Linux distro, or even applications for that matter, for the same reason that I don't know how to convert a diesel car to CNG.)
Joseph Nuthalapati :fbx:
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