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Walmart Ships PCs with Lindows OS
Tonetheman writes "Walmart is now shipping low cost PC's with Lindows pre-installed. And yes I know there was a review earlier on Slashdot about installing Linux on one of these bad boys. This is different and much more exciting. To think of the legions of rednecks who could now possibly be running Lindows instead of Windows..." There's a Newsforge story too. Hopefully Lindows makes a good impression.
Wal-Mart is one of the worst companies ever. Do not buy anything there.
they'll think they were suckered into buying some kind of like a cheap knock-off
And rightly so, I'd say that's exactly what Lindows is.
Dammit, I live not 30 minutes from Walmart corporate headquarters. And let me say something. If you're shopping at Walmart, your either a hick, a redneck, or just cheap. While there are many "normal" people who shop at Walmart, the "Bubba" stereotype is not misapplied.
Walmart was made be a REDNECK for REDNECKS! The company is still owned by REDNECKS!!! And something else? I go to a University full or REDNECKS that Walmart loves to give money to.
So THERE!!!
Let's take a technically superior OS and try to sell the fact that it's able to run most of microsoft's crap.
Where have I heard that before?
While I am gad to see that nonMicrosoft platforms are being sent out to people that would otherwise not use them I am offended by the way this submitted used sent this article.
This elitist tone used in the article is not only common with Slashdot regulars but with the Open Source community in general. If the community is to grow outside it's niche bounds there will be the need for some people to get the "US Vs the ignorant" out of their way of thinking.
Here's my origial post, in response to somebody commenting that Walmart should be taken down:
"Did it occur to you that the reason people go to Walmart is because it's cheap and convenient? They didn't put a musket to anybody's head.
When I was a teenager, I had a friend that had 3 bros and 3 sis's. They *needed* WalMart to survive. If they had cheap computers running Lindows for cheap, then they'd have been able to get on the net."
Some idiot moderator modded me down as flamebait!! I don't see why!
I guess you can tell somebody pushed a hot-button with me. You'd be uspet too if your best friend was barely able to survive in this world because his family was too large. You can hate Walmart for their business practices, but they are one of the few places that my friend's family was forced to shop at because they had little money.
"Derp de derp."