Has anyone contacted Mr Dell about installing Kubuntu

[Scott]

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...

Pesonally, I'd be satisfied with them offering Ubuntu with both GNOME and
KDE (either with or without "kubntu-desktop" and it's dependancies).

I run both (actually xubuntu-desktop as well). And I
always "install "kde" after "kubuntu-desktop" to quickly get all the
good stuff that the former leaves out.

But even if Dell goes with a vanilla Ubuntu desktop, it's easy to remedy
that yourself (as has been pointed out).

On the other hand, this is moot for me anyway.  I won't buy from Dell due
to some labor policies they instituted a number of years ago.

I was a loyal Dell customer from 1995-1999 (two computers). When it time
to get my third in 2005, I went elsewhere.

I'm glad to see Dell taking this step and I hope it proves a success, but
they have to do much more to bring me back. :-)


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