I read your review with great interest and have read most of the Linux reviews for distro's on your site for the last year. I was looking for a suitable distro to trial on a new laptop. I have had some experiences with the Robolinux donation system, and thought would relay some supporting comments. I have made several donations over a period of 6 months, initially to support what I saw as a great effort by the developers on something unique and very promising. For the first donation I was to receive the link to download an important aspect of the software. The link was not received, and some annoying problems prevented me from installing it onto my PC, but revisited the idea when I had to fix my sisters PC several thousand miles away, and did not have my original receipt details to try and get the link again. I paid another $10 to get a new link however it arrived a few days later than would have been useful - as I had to fly back home. I tried to install a simple program to allow me to assist my sister remotely (Teamviewer) and Robolinux hung up (caused an unusual issue with the updater) and now a year later it is still unable to download upgrades or any software. When I contacted Robolinux I was told I would need a higher level of support and upwards of $100 was suggested. The big issue for me is that the service was not fast enough, every piece of advice costs money, the software is not perfect and there is poor documentation when things go pearshaped, and there is no public forum - in short it has a closed ecosystem that is not in the spirit of Open Source, although the objectives as stated sound amazing and I truely wished it fulfilled the promise advertised. I have donated money several times to worthy linux distros, however I was frustrated that I received many quite rude responses when I asked for the links promised and paid for. I suspect that when they started the CEO was idealistic and unrealistic in expectations of workload and support required and wanted to make a business model that needed paid staff and donations did not rush in. I doubt they will see this or care what I say, but just in case they could emulate the VMware model (and in some ways Apple) - get it out there at low cost for those that don't make money from it, and for companies find features that they have to have and students and home users will suggest or demand to have it in the workplace!