Fwd: Ubuntu Laptop...

[Rev Simon Rumble]

This one time, at band camp, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:

> Be careful when dealing with shop personnel regarding GNU/Linux support. One 
> of the reasons given by some US shops for their lack on GNU/Linux support is 
> that GNU/Linux users ask a lot of difficult questions which chew up the time 
> of salespeople. Once their questions have been answered, the shoppers go and 
> buy from some place cheaper.

Quite possibly.  This is more a problem in places that employ clueful 
people, which tend to be the smaller shops.  People do their research 
there and end up buying elsewhere.

If you can get a big box retailer's sales assistant to say the machine 
supports Linux (and if they work on commission they probably will say 
anything to make a sale) you can return it if it doesn't work.

-- 
Rev Simon Rumble <simon at rumble.net>
www.rumble.net


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