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Comments on: One Window Per Child https://hughmcguire.net/2008/03/17/one-window-per-child/ aging idealist. ai and education, open web, open publishing. Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:46:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: jeremy clarke https://hughmcguire.net/2008/03/17/one-window-per-child/comment-page-1/#comment-6037 Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:46:13 +0000 https://hughmcguire.net/2008/03/17/one-window-per-child/#comment-6037 Yeah, this is actually probably a good thing. A friend of mine bought an XO with the buy two get one deal and I have to say, Sugar is a reeking, moronic piece of shit. It crashes regularly and doesn’t make any sense as far as I can tell.

Maybe it’s a good idea that I just can’t conceive of (even as someone explains it to me) but I really think they went the wrong route. The hardware is groundbreaking, but having the software also be groundbreaking was an unnecessary risk and one that I can’t help predicting will cause the downfall of XO, especially when Asus has such a sweet hit with the eeepc with it’s WinXP-like linux distro. Why can’t the XO use somethign like that? Why not Xubuntu or something?

Running windows on it is just as stupid of course, but I very much believe that they are desperate to fix the biggest problem with the XO, Sugar.

]]> By: Hugh https://hughmcguire.net/2008/03/17/one-window-per-child/comment-page-1/#comment-5840 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 04:11:26 +0000 https://hughmcguire.net/2008/03/17/one-window-per-child/#comment-5840 What do you think the chances are that schools will get the choice?

whether it’s a good thing or a bad thing, i don’t know. but i’ll bet you $50 “choice” won’t be one of the things on offer, one way or another. that’s not the way projects like this work.

]]> By: Steven Mansour https://hughmcguire.net/2008/03/17/one-window-per-child/comment-page-1/#comment-5836 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 01:51:56 +0000 https://hughmcguire.net/2008/03/17/one-window-per-child/#comment-5836 Who cares? If users / schools get the choice between Windows and the Sugar UI / Linux all the better.

I’m sure if they announced “a Mac OS X operating system being fine-tuned on the XO” fanboys would be all over it.

]]> By: Hugh https://hughmcguire.net/2008/03/17/one-window-per-child/comment-page-1/#comment-5835 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:27:17 +0000 https://hughmcguire.net/2008/03/17/one-window-per-child/#comment-5835 I’m told these are just rumours…who knows.

]]> By: Kara https://hughmcguire.net/2008/03/17/one-window-per-child/comment-page-1/#comment-5834 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:58:37 +0000 https://hughmcguire.net/2008/03/17/one-window-per-child/#comment-5834 Uh. WHAT? Vomit. Weep. Well, that’s that. End of a dream. Sigh.

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