companies selling Ubuntu preinstalled?

[Ioannis Vranos]

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 00:06 -0400, Fred A. Miller wrote:
>> On 05/23/2011 10:18 PM, Ric Moore wrote:
>> > I would think Germany would be crawling with dealers that offer SuSe
>> > pre-installed. Then you could rip it out by the antlers and install
>> > Ubuntu. :) Ric
>>
>> Why? They aren't using Unity.
>
> And? The point was to get a machine free of the Windows tax. If he finds
> one for sale running SuSe, which is supposed to be popular in Germany,
> he could buy that, THEN install Ubuntu ...so he can get Unity, if that
> is what his little heart desires. :) Ric


Thankfully Ubuntu 11.04 comes also with the Classic GNOME 2.32.1 UI
too, so one can avoid Unity.

Regarding SUSE, my personal opinion is that although it was a good
distro in the old times, now it has become bloated like Windows.




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