Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 17th Apr 2008 16:23 UTC, submitted by Moulinneuf
About a year ago, Dell made an important move. Pushed by thousands of comments in its IdeaStorm website, the company started offering Ubuntu preloaded on a small selection of its machines. Initially only a US-based program, but later on, some European countries followed. However, criticism was not absent; buyers complained the machines were hard to find on Dell's website and that Dell did not do enough to promote sales of the Ubuntu machines. Today, Dell has commented on the whole Dell-Ubuntu marriage.
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With Linux, they can't find applications, because the average PC user is too ill-informed about OpenSource, Free Software, and the like.
Can't find applications? Most of what people need is already there in most distro installs, and todays 'mainstream' brands make a point of showing the user how easy it is to add more.
But really, only those that are interested in making the move to Linux will bother with it anyway. These people will at least inform themselves of what that entails.
As for the argument that an application is just a 'bittorrent' away...well...I'll just say my definition of 'free' is different to theirs.
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In which case, Windows looks like a much better deal to them, because they can find applications on the shelf to put on their PC. With Linux, they can't find applications, because the average PC user is too ill-informed about OpenSource, Free Software, and the like.