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Why Won't Dell Promote Its Linux Desktops?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the soemthing-to-think-about dept.

Brian McCoy writes "In this article, Steven Vaughn-Nichols proclaims "Last Thursday, when I wrote about Dell's new Linux desktop, was one of the most frustrating days of my professional life. My eWEEK colleague John Spooner and I tried our best to get Dell to confess that they really had released an honest-to-God Linux desktop.""

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  1. Support. by DogDude · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's very simple. Support will be an absolute nightmare. The few hundred bucks per machine that they're charging over Windows doesn't come close to paying the bill of the support that the "average" computer users would need if they actually bought these things. They want to make sure that people who buy them REALLY want them and know how to use them, already.

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  2. Re:Why should they have to? by smallpaul · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is all way too reminiscent of the whole Massachusetts-forcing-Walmart-to-carry-Plan-B, most slashdotters tend to oppose the government mindset and yet when it comes to linux they fall right into that mindset.

    Where in the post or the thread did someone ask for a government bill demanding Linux marketing from Dell?