"BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> wrote:

>And I have Xandros,

I will agree that finding and installing Xandros applications for the
Eee PCs is difficult. But since the Eee PC comes new with around 40
apps, most *non-hobby* users will likely be able to do what they
bought the netbook for just fine.

>Ubuntu,

I currently have the latest version of Ubuntu installed (dual boot
with XP) on this Eee PC (1000HD) and it works fine.There were a few
things that had to be worked out but I doubt a fresh install of XP on
a strange netbook would have gone any better.

>and not a single application
>is available for these distros that I find useful.

I just checked the Ubuntu Synaptic package handler. It says there are
26000+ packages available for installation. Of those several thousand
are applications. Perhaps you are a bit too picky??... ;)

>Linux can't even keep my interest for a whole day...

OSs of course are a personal preference. But like warm beer you might
warm (pun intended) to Linux if you used it more often. With two OSs
on the *same* Eee PC you could make a good comparison. You could try
dual booting Linux with XP on your Eee PC as I do. That way you can
have the best of both worlds. But wait, with those dinky SSDs of yours
that would be difficult wouldn't it... ;)