Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 13th Mar 2007 23:01 UTC, submitted by shykid
Dell began polling customers about their software preferences on Tuesday as part of an effort by the struggling PC vendor to meet a popular request for desktops and notebooks that run on Linux instead of Windows. Dell posted the survey on a company blog, asking PC users to choose between Linux flavors such as Fedora and Ubuntu, and to pick more general choices such as notebooks versus desktops, high-end models versus value models and telephone-based support versus community-based support.
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2006-04-21
That's fair enough, but, even if Linux came preinstalled, whatever distro was chosen there'd be a fair few (perhaps the majority) of us (Linux users) would buy these systems in preference to a Windows machine, even if they had to reinstall their own favourite Linux distro. But (a) at least we'd know that the hardware was supported in Linux, and (b) at least we wouldn't be paying money to a corporation whose software we weren't going to use (and hopefully (c) at least we could get them at the same price or cheaper than Windows machines). I realize (a) might not apply to FreeBSD users, but (b) and (c) should.