Has anyone contacted Mr Dell about installing Kubuntu

[SteVe Cook]

Douglas Phillipson wrote:
> As we all believe on this list, KDE is much more friendly and usable as 
> a desktop than GNOME, IMHO at least.  All my friends think the same 
> way.  Anyone that runs Ubuntu for which I install the Kubuntu-desktop 
> packages, thanks me for it after using it just a short while.   Has 
> anyone tried to convince Mr Dell of this?  Yes I know you can easily 
> turn Ubunto into Kubuntu, but the masses don't know this.  They will use 
> what comes as default on the box.  I've sent several messages to Dell, 
> but I doubt it would do any good.
> 
> http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/unbuntu?c=us&cs=19&l=en&
> 
> I hope I'm not being too much of an activist here...
> 
> Doug P
> 
It would appear Mr. Dell is an intelligent man and has chosen wisely.
Personally I hate KDE and prefer XFCE.  The choice of desktops makes 
GNU/Linux that much better then Windows.  The fact that Dell is willing 
to sell computers with GNU/Linux installed should be applauded.


SteVe