No way anybody really believed that. Or did they?

Us people who remember EEE didn't

did anyone believe it?!

It was AstroTurfed to hell and back here and on Reddit. I know that much.

You can see the reactions in 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7524082 . Pretty positive overall!

All those people who use Linux on their Windows machine instead of just installing a proper Linux distro.

You can see it very regularly when typescript is mentioned