Has anyone contacted Mr Dell about installing Kubuntu

[Douglas Phillipson]

Mark Wallace wrote:
> If you install Ubuntu, you can install KDE as a package and 
> vice-versa.  Install Synapitic and the desktop that you don't have is 
> addable under "mega progams or Meta programs, I forget which.
>
> */Douglas Phillipson <phillipd at oem.doe.gov>/* 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
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As I stated it is easy to install KDE, but most people use the defaults 
that come with the OS.  I wonder if there are any metrics available on 
the top 5 environments.

Doug P