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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><font style="font-size:10pt;" size="2" face="Verdana"><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">When I l<font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">ast mentioned Linux i<font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">n PC W<font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">orld it was quite obvious that the assistant had <font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">never</font> heard of it. <font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">Now that most PC World <font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">shops a<font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">re integrated with Currys, there are staff with apparently little <font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">experience</font> on the PC side. They may know a lot about fridges and hoovers but not IT. <font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">Maybe <font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">that</font> will improve with time.<br><br><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">Perhaps if enough <font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">people ask about <font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">Linux drivers<font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2"> and support, even if we<font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2"> already know the answer, the message might slowly get through.<br><br><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">As an aside, when I <font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2"><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">told an assistant</font> in a Tesco<font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2"> mega-st<font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">ore that I would be installing Linux on a laptop I was considering buying<font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">,</font> <font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">his </font><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">response was "I wouldn't do that<font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">, Sir. <font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">Linux has <font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">a reputation for burning out<font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2"> hard disks".</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font><br><br><font style="font-size: 10pt;" size="2">Nige</font><br id="FontBreak"></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font><br> </div></body>
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