Follow us on TwitterOver the weekend, we downloaded and played with a bunch of netbook operating systems (OSs). We will be posting articles over the next several days to tell you what we saw (or didn’t see) and give you our opinions.
But the process of evaluating these new operating systems naturally leads to the fundamental question, “What do users expect from a netbook operating system?” Or more succinctly, “What tasks will netbook users expect their OS to perform?”
I use mine as a second PC that I take with me when I travel. At home, I have a desktop with two big flat screen monitors attached.
I use my netbook to maintain this web site, to read email, to tweet and to post updates on my personal social networking pages. Once in a blue moon, I may do some word processing or spreadsheet work.
I have some applications that I have installed on my netbook. I have TweetDeck, GIMP (think PhotoShop for Linux), NetBeans, MySQL server, and a whole bunch of different browsers for testing (yes, even Internet Explorer 6 running on Linux).
I don’t ever listen to music on my netbook. I use my iPod. I do watch YouTube videos on occasion. But I have never watched a movie on my netbook. And I have never used the VGA port on any of my netbooks for anything.
I know that I am not the normal netbook user.
To get a better understanding of how people use their netbooks, we thought we would ask. Please help us by completing the poll below. You may select as many choices as you would like.
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