[ubuntu-uk] When buying a new pc...

[Andy Smith]

Hello,

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 10:55:02AM +0100, Avi Greenbury wrote:
> Andy Smith wrote:
> > However it all sounds like a massive hassle and personally I would
> > buy the computer online using a credit card making sure the store
> > was aware it was for Ubuntu.
> 
> You'd need to do more than make them aware of what you want to do with 
> it; you need to have some (written) confirmation that the PC will work 
> with ubuntu, which they're not going to give you. There's no universal 
> right to be able to buy PCs that're guaranteed to work with your 
> favourite OS.

Fair enough, but there is a right to return it if it doesn't work
out for you.

> Personally, this sounds like an awful lot of hassle, and doesn't appear 
> to do anything but make Linux users look like awkward customers who 
> insist on using an OS with patchy hardware support, and give you a 
> woefully convoluted route to buying a PC.

You'd have to be spectacularly unlucky to buy something that doesn't
work after checking out the components online. If you bought it
online with a credit card there is zero chance you can't send it
back in this case. You don't buy computer hardware online then?
Surely it's the easiest way.

I can see wanting to handle some things in-store for ergonomic
reasons.

Cheers,
Andy

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