<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 5.5.2658.2"> <TITLE>Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC Vista Coverage</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> >> I disagree, I think it would be more realistic to say "windows users will >> never swap until you can walk into a shop and buy a Linux PC that's already >> been set up for you", I think that by far most of the Windows PCs are bought >> 'as is' and most users never go near an O/S installation or pugrade. > >Has any linux distro company tried selling Desktop PCs with their >distro pre-installed? > >I know Dell sell some PCs with linux pre-installed. I didn't realise Dell did that - The nice people at the Linux Emporium (www.linuxemporium.co.uk) sell laptops with Suse Linux pre-installed. I agree that until PCs are sold with Linux pre-installed, Linux won't make any real gains against Windows on the desktop.  Thinking about it, I'm surprised that (say) Tesco hasn't tried selling cheap PCs with Linux on them. </BODY> </HTML>