Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 12th Aug 2009 23:00 UTC
I think we can finally put a certain myth to rest that's been circling around the web for a while now. Microsoft often claimed that netbooks running Linux saw higher return rates than those running Windows, but according to Dell, this is utter nonsense.
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I guess you're right about that, although I'd be skeptical about anything coming from Dell; in either case, I don't think you can compare return rate for Windows/Linux, because probably the former is way more popular. It's not fair to say, we sold 100 windows boxes and 10 linux. 10 Windows were returned, 1 linux was returned, hence the return rate is the same…
Again, a comprehension problem. A "rate" is like a percentage ... say 2 returned machines out of every 1000 sold, or something like that.
Absolute numbers of units sold simply doesn't come into it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rate_%28mathematics%29
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2005-07-03
Do all Windows users have reading comprehension troubles, or what?
I guess you're right about that, although I'd be skeptical about anything coming from Dell; in either case, I don't think you can compare return rate for Windows/Linux, because probably the former is way more popular. It's not fair to say, we sold 100 windows boxes and 10 linux. 10 Windows were returned, 1 linux was returned, hence the return rate is the same…
I don't think that proves anything, except maybe that 10% of Dell boxes are returned. (I made the numbers for the sake of the example).
There may however be a few people who are not familiar with Ubuntu, and who would be utterly astounded to see Ubuntu's "Add/Remove" applications ... given the eternally repeated FUD one hears from Windows fanboys that supposedly "linux has no software".
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Oh but you can see those everywhere. OS X doesn't have software either, does it?