Actually, I have been wandering the Best Buy, CompUSA, Sam's Clubs, inserting Knoppix V3.2 and installing other Linux distros, for about a year.
I hand out FREE CD's of Knoppix at these 'Events' and, today, the Commercial sales rep. at CompUSA just stood there as customers gathered around, got their FREE Knoppix CD's, plus the address for the Installfest, this Saturday, at Valencia -Metro - Community College in Florida. http://leap-cf.org is on a W I D E pipe, so ya'll go ahead and look!
M$ trained and brainwashed retail sales people are clueless about how to really sell computers, and software, being so very lazy from all of the folks who just appear with money in hand to purchase goodies, like that M$ vaporware, brokenware, and virus of the week ware.
Today, COMPUSA lost several customers who appeared to purchase a DVD recorder on sale, only to find the LOCK-UP was filled with them, all on telephone reserve for customers who phoned in... and they refused to give out rain checks...
HP is following that broken model of customer NO-SUPPORT. I agree with many of you, that if a retailer won't work with the regular customers who are there every week, we will vote with our feet!
For perfection, I build my boxen from parts. Saves huge wads of green, plus, everything works!
There are some really great computer component prices on the web... a 52x24x52 CD for $19.25 delivered! Knoppix rocks, though I have about 60 of the other distros here, some retail boxes, some from http://cheapbytes.com and some downloads from http://distrowatch.com
Knoppix has over 28 distros for your pleasure! http://knopper.net/knoppix
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Posted by: Sage1 on September 05, 2003 10:55 AMand installing other Linux distros, for about a year.
I hand out FREE CD's of Knoppix at these 'Events'
and, today, the Commercial sales rep. at CompUSA just stood there as customers gathered around, got their FREE Knoppix CD's, plus the address for the Installfest, this Saturday, at Valencia -Metro - Community College in Florida. http://leap-cf.org is on a W I D E pipe, so ya'll go ahead and look!
M$ trained and brainwashed retail sales people are clueless about how to really sell computers, and software, being so very lazy from all of the folks who just appear with money in hand to purchase goodies, like that M$ vaporware, brokenware, and virus of the week ware.
Today, COMPUSA lost several customers who appeared to purchase a DVD recorder on sale, only to find the LOCK-UP was filled with them, all on telephone reserve for customers who phoned in... and they refused to give out rain checks...
HP is following that broken model of customer NO-SUPPORT. I agree with many of you, that if a retailer won't work with the regular customers who are there every week, we will vote with our feet!
For perfection, I build my boxen from parts. Saves huge wads of green, plus, everything works!
There are some really great computer component prices on the web... a 52x24x52 CD for $19.25 delivered!
Knoppix rocks, though I have about 60 of the other distros here, some retail boxes, some from
http://cheapbytes.com and some downloads from http://distrowatch.com
Knoppix has over 28 distros for your pleasure!
http://knopper.net/knoppix
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