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Windows Laptops Ship With Linux Media Player
hqm writes "Maybe this is the real way Windows will be made irrelevant, not by a Linux desktop, but by Linux embedded software. LinuxDevices has an article stating 'NEC is the latest vendor to announce a laptop with a built-in embedded Linux based media player option. The NEC Versa S3000 will use InterVideo's InstantOn technology to enable users to listen to music, watch DVDs, and more without having to wait for Windows to load. Another major laptop vendor, Toshiba, in July launched its Qosmio laptop, which also includes a Linux-based media player environment. NEC will market the S3000 in Hong Kong and China. The laptop also includes InterVideo's popular WinDVD DVD playing software, which is also available for Linux.'"
Tell your friends to go fuck off.
You're helping them, for free, taking time out of your busy schedule to install and configure a state-of-the-art operating system and the ungrateful bastards just snub you and say they want the other one because "it looks better."
I say: don't provide support for them, and let them watch their windows machine become a pile of crap with ads and viruses.
Then there will be a week when they can't use their computer at all for whatever reason, they will come begging, BEGGING, for you to install Linux.
On the other hand, don't offer to install linux for free. Do it for a hunders dollars. You'll be able to after the week of no web/im. They will come to respect it.
"Piter, too, is dead."
Uh, it's not seperate (not separate) hardware for DVDs and MP3s. It's probably a half-gig partition, if that, with a Linux installation that can play DVDs and MP3s from the main, Windows partition.
Dumbass. RTFM.
I'm on a road shaped like a figure eight; I'm going nowhere but I'm guaranteed to be late.
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