Woah, you have a Moblin USB, can you unleash me? Please?
I'm about 2 weeks into netbook immersion. I started off really skeptical, carrying my MBP with me in case my netbook didn't suffice. At this point, the keyboard isn't too small and the screen is perfect for browsing. I'm sold. I didn't get a 3G wireless plan because I'm hopeful tethering will become a reality off my smartphone, but I'm already tempted.
The first thing I did was create 4 partitions and put all the different available OS's on it to try each one. Moblin is easily my favorite, though the beta release has some issues. Ubuntu Remix is stable and nice, but doesn't have any built in web widgets making the browser the central application. Windows is awful. Its easy to hate on windows, but really did anyone there even try to use Windows on a netbook?
Market adoption for Operating Systems is still very much in the air, although Mircosoft, through their extensive OEM relationships, is claiming 80%. Anyone that is serious about having this be their primary device is going to want something different. Since Netbooks are primarily being marketed to college students, Moblin should burn 10000 bootable USB sticks dropping them into select college campuses and launch a viral marketing campaign that makes it cool for students to share the stick to "unleash their netbook and share the favor."
The key to success is for the installation to literally be, reboot with USB stick, quick easy setup for social networking services and its ready for use. Its too complicated right now.
