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Pre-Installed Linux Tops Dell Customer Requests
dhart writes "Within only a few days of Dell opening a new customer feedback website, they discovered that the feature most requested (by an almost 2-to-1 margin!) is an option on all new Dell PCs: pre-installed Linux. (And the number 3 request is pre-installed Open Office.) I believe they'll have a harder time now with the tired old mantra 'There's no customer demand for Linux.'"
You mean I could order it with Linux (free), then format the HD and install a pirated version of Windows? Wow, sounds like a great deal to me too. I see the ghost of the Genuine Advantage programme coming back to life.
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I asked those idiots at Dell about Linux in 2001 and they gave me the rudest reaction imagineable. I still wouldn't buy their garbage. Forget Linux for a moment... ever try to run anything on a Dell (well, a laptop in my case) that they did not ship with it? Like say a different version of Windows? Good luck there. I bought my Dell in 2001 and was forced to swallow XP Home. I wanted to run Win2K and Linux as I was developing server apps and needed 2K server. Guess what... my laptop did not "support" Win2K, whatever that means. ATI's driver's never worked on it. Dell's answer? "Tough luck". I should use XP... that's what they said. Freaking idiots. Yeah. Me too. For buying one.
So I offer you all hamburgers, and open up a request forum. Moron says... give me chicken! Um... does it take a genius here? 10000 people request linux. A million people buy Vista and never go to the nerd board? So genius says the world wants Linux... nope. Linux wanna be Unix is dead for the consumer PC.
Damn, I'm getting too reliant on those <sarcasm> tags.
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