First Psystar, now Quo, but what about Linux?
Despite the lawsuit that Apple has brought against Psystar, a company which sells Mac "clones", bringing it down to bankruptcy there is a company which is pretty much doing exactly the same thing: Quo Computer. So what has Linux got to do with all of this?
First off, obviously, it contains no such legal hassles being completely free for anyone to install wherever they want. Second of all, there may be a lesson to learn from demand mentioned above. What people apparently want is an OS that "just works" and does so beautifully running on hardware that "just works" and is also quite beautiful, without breaking the dime. It may be quite the jump to make, but what if a Linux-based OS could be spiced up to play the role of just such an OS in this picture?
The best that we've seen so far were companies such as System76 making their own computers running Ubuntu, but what I'm talking about should go a level or few beyond that. This isn't just about pre-installing a Linux based OS. This is about matching the user experience provided by Apple and longed for by those looking for cheap hackintoshes. This is about building Linux based desktop appliances where every bit of the user experience is carefully tweaked to perfection. A user of such a computer should not even care what kernel or what distro is it that is running on the machine. He would simply know it by the name of the computer and indeed the name, a brand, of the experience he enjoys with it.
Here are a few ideas to start with, just to shed further light on what I'm trying to express.
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