Netbook Return Rates Much Higher For Linux Than Windows

ivoras writes "An interview with MSI's director of US Sales, Andy Tung, contains this interesting snippet: "We have done a lot of studies on the return rates and haven't really talked about it much until now. Our internal research has shown that the return of netbooks is higher than regular notebooks, but the main cause of that is Linux. People would love to pay $299 or $399 but they don't know what they get until they open the box. They start playing around with Linux and start realizing that it's not what they are used to. They don't want to spend time to learn it so they bring it back to the store. The return rate is at least four times higher for Linux netbooks than Windows XP netbooks.'"

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Re:Try a few of these free games...

[bjohnson]

I wish I had a cluebat right now.

"Those are all packages I found with a quick `aptitude search "~i~sGames"; that is, these are games that are packaged and trivially easy to install straight out of the box."

See that contrail waaaaaay up there at the edge of the atmosphere? That's the whole point flying right over your head...

Re:they don't know what they get until they open t

[Overly Critical Guy]

Welcome to the angry antisocial Linux community, ladies and gentleman--where wanting to get things done instead of spending all night configuring an OS is "anti-intellectualism," and having more interesting things to do is a "misguided rush."

You're a "drone" if you want to use software that already works. Good luck spreading that message, Linux users.