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There is no reason whatsoever to purchase Dell on basis of their Linux merits. It's a scam. In most markets they refuse even to make their "Linuxmachines" traceable on their sites. For some people Dell makes sense - but Linux is not a part of it.

Sink Dell, sink!

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This piqued my curiousity a bit until I worked through the pricing. Discounts on the XP models translate into a $15 premium for ordering Ubuntu over XP. How does this make sense?

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Some people don't realize that Dell selling Linux PC is not bad. In fact one missing point in linux is the missing support for the drivers and other stuff from big companies. This problem resides on the missing market for linux. The total is less than the 5% down from WIndows and MacOS users market. If the giants like dell, hp, toshiba and other starts to look at linux and start to distribuite/sell laptops/desktops with linux preloaded the people will start to realize theres another OS besides windows. Is good Dell sells linux PCs because not all the people know linux at all. In a research one company (Best Buy) starts to question their employees and buyers about operating systems and only the 3% answers know something about Linux. This is bad. But, if the people looks the linux installed on PCs they will start to question and start to research about this 'new' OS. And the missing point of Linux continue to be the games (sad but true) since youngters and middles look to play their fav games on the PC and Linux don't have thta big strong point...and actually Wine stills sucks for that with low FPS and some incompatibility.

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