Best Buy Is Selling Ubuntu

SirLurksAlot writes "It appears that Best Buy is now selling Ubuntu, both through its Web site and in its brick-and-mortar locations. Going by the release on the product page, Ubuntu has actually been available for the low, low price of $19.99 since May 6th of this year. It is being packaged as the 'Complete Edition.' While they don't specify on the site what version is being offered, a quick call to a local store revealed it to be Hardy Heron, the latest Long Term Support version. How did this development fly under the radar for over two months without anybody noticing?"

Comments

I like the customer reviews...

[Anonymous Coward]

'Cons: Doesn't come in Ultimate and Premier editions'

Ha ha.

Re:I like the customer reviews...

[Lord_Frederick]

I'm not surprised the same guy paid the geek squad $150 to install it for him.

Re:I like the customer reviews...

[Rary]

'Cons: Doesn't come in Ultimate and Premier editions'

Ha ha.

Not only that, he paid $150 to have Geek Squad install it, and he did all this after paying to upgrade to Vista Ultimate, and he did this because he didn't want to spend tons of money on Microsoft Office when Ubuntu comes with its own free office suite, apparently oblivious to the fact that the same free office suite is also available for Windows, which he already paid for.

Brilliant.

Re:It flew under the radar

[thetoadwarrior]

Who buys stuff they don't need?

You mean like a singing rubber fish to hand on the wall?

http://www.howstuffworks.com/singing-fish.htm

Re:It flew under the radar

[n1ckml007]

What? no Rick Roll?

Finally

[eclectro]

A linux distro I can pirate.

Re:It flew under the radar

[zappepcs]

5. [pure personal intuition] Nowadays, mouth-to-mouth is still the best way to spread Ubuntu, or any Linux distro, and hey, the initial mouths know where to get it, and that won't be Best Buy. And that relates to your comment.

Emphasis is mine.

Either this guy is only telling women about Ubuntu, or I'm glad he didn't tell me about Ubuntu!

Re:It flew under the radar

[L4t3r4lu5]

Yeah, but they have a modem pool connected to an automated message telling you to go to the forums!

It might also ask you if you've restarted your computer, or tried booting into Safe Mode.

Re:It flew under the radar

[petecarlson]

If they were already running Ubuntu or another modern operating system I would agree with you but that's not the case. The target market is people running Win98/Me/Vista. The 98/me folks can't get the piece of crap to burn a CD while the suckers who bought vista can't get networking to work right.

Re:It flew under the radar

[Ngarrang]

That's about right. If you're looking for Ubuntu, you don't typically go buy it – and if you come across it at Best Buy, you're not going to know what it is. Who buys stuff they don't need?

The same people who paid money for a 'pet rock'.

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Re:It flew under the radar

[elrous0]

WALL-E thought it was valuable.

Re:It flew under the radar

[William Robinson]

Who buys stuff they don't need?

I heard somewhere, that a man will buy 1$ item for 2$ if he needs it...And a woman will buy 2$ item for 1$ even if she does not need it.

So, all we need to do is, attach a price tag of 39.95$ to Ubuntu, place it near lipstick section and put a big banner of '50% discount sale' above it :)

Re:It flew under the radar

[mhall119]

The friend or the monkey?