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This alternative interface for netbooks ditches the desktop metaphor.
Many mainstream Linux distributions like Fedora, Ubuntu, and Mandriva provide support for popular netbook models. Consequently, they run on your little companion pretty much right out of the box. However, the desktop metaphor that works so well on conventional PCs and laptops doesn’t translate very well to the netbook computer.
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Comments
Bad UI choices on netbooks
Kurt Seifried Oct 30, 2009 8:31am GMT
I gotta say one thing that drives me nuts is by defaultsome Linux systems have extremely large control panel window boxes, it's pretty annoying when you go to reset the font size so you can fit more text on your network, but the "OK" or "Apply" button is off the screen since the UI Window is to large for a small netbook screen. A rethink of how to use that space is important because using my netbook seems overly painful at times.