Vista - Dell to Sell Linux PCs

And no one thinks this has anything to do with Dell pressuring MS for better
agreements?

LOL.

Lang

"Charlie Wilkes" <charlie_wilkes@users.easynews.com> wrote in message
news:igJEh.19181$gl2.4321@fe10.news.easynews.com...
> "Something in the balance of power between the world's largest PC vendor
> and the crew in Redmond has shifted, and not in Redmond's favor. You can
> bet money on that."
>
> http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,12...x/article.html

"Robert Firth" <webmaster@winvistainfo.org> wrote in message
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> Change of the sake of profit.

uhm, you just described Vista. Reworked Start Menu, Control Panel, folder
locations, random name changes everywhere with no rhyme or reason other than
change for the sake of change.
clue: If I go out and rearrange the letters on the hood of my Dodge to read
Gedod it won't make it a new car...

> I'm sure you will have some upset people who will want to return their
> computer when they learn that they can't run any of their old programs and
> have to re-learn how to use their computer. XP --> Vista is a jump.
> XP/Vista --> Linux is a cliff dive for many home users. Grandma can hardly
> find the start menu. Now she has to cope with total change.

You're doing it again....

In article <igJEh.19181$gl2.4321@fe10.news.easynews.com>, Charlie
Wilkes says...
> "Something in the balance of power between the world's largest PC vendor
> and the crew in Redmond has shifted, and not in Redmond's favor. You can
> bet money on that."
>
Wrong. They said the same in 2000. Nothing happened.


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Conor

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright
until you hear them speak.........

In article <3cudnfhW2Znn7H7YRVnytwA@giganews.com>, Stephan Rose says...
> Zim Babwe wrote:
>
> > OK so in a typical day when they sell 10,000 PC's with Windows and 24 PC's
> > with Linux, will you be able to notice the shift?
>
> Would you please post references to where you got those numbers from?
>
>
Widely available stats for the percentage of Linux installs on the
desktop.

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Conor

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright
until you hear them speak.........

In article <yMMEh.33462$_X1.2501@fe05.news.easynews.com>, Charlie
Wilkes says...
> On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 14:53:39 -0800, Zim Babwe wrote:
>
> > OK so in a typical day when they sell 10,000 PC's with Windows and 24
> > PC's with Linux, will you be able to notice the shift?
> >
> We'll have to see how it works out. Apparently Dell is making this move
> because their cheaper laptops (the best-selling category) don't have
> enough horsepower to haul Vista's fat ass around. Other OEMs must be
> facing a similar situation.
>
> Meanwhile Linux has gotten a lot better since the last time this
> experiment was tried...
>
It'll last about a month until the Dell forums get filled with
****loads of rants from disgruntled users who couldn't use X hardware
or Y software.


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Conor

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright
until you hear them speak.........

Conor wrote:
> In article <igJEh.19181$gl2.4321@fe10.news.easynews.com>, Charlie
> Wilkes says...
>> "Something in the balance of power between the world's largest PC vendor
>> and the crew in Redmond has shifted, and not in Redmond's favor. You can
>> bet money on that."
>>
> Wrong. They said the same in 2000. Nothing happened.
>
>

Linux has changed a tad since 2000. I, for one, never dreamed I would
even consider Linux until MS did me the favor of accusing me of being a
thief until I prove otherwise THREE times with XP. That motivated me to
try Ubuntu and I was pleasantly surprised on how user friendly it is and
how I can get support without being sneered at by some MVP who is high
on self importance.

Alias

I'd never touch Dell anyway, even more reason to avoid them now.

"Charlie Wilkes" <charlie_wilkes@users.easynews.com> wrote in message
news:igJEh.19181$gl2.4321@fe10.news.easynews.com...
> "Something in the balance of power between the world's largest PC vendor
> and the crew in Redmond has shifted, and not in Redmond's favor. You can
> bet money on that."
>
> http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,12...x/article.html

On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:25:41 +0100, Alias wrote:

> Conor wrote:
>> In article <igJEh.19181$gl2.4321@fe10.news.easynews.com>, Charlie Wilkes
>> says...
>>> "Something in the balance of power between the world's largest PC
>>> vendor and the crew in Redmond has shifted, and not in Redmond's favor.
>>> You can bet money on that."
>>>
>> Wrong. They said the same in 2000. Nothing happened.
>>
>>
>>
> Linux has changed a tad since 2000. I, for one, never dreamed I would even
> consider Linux until MS did me the favor of accusing me of being a thief
> until I prove otherwise THREE times with XP. That motivated me to try
> Ubuntu and I was pleasantly surprised on how user friendly it is and how I
> can get support without being sneered at by some MVP who is high on self
> importance.

Instead, you can get sneered at by Linux geeks who are high on self
importance.

arachnid wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:25:41 +0100, Alias wrote:
>
>> Conor wrote:
>>> In article <igJEh.19181$gl2.4321@fe10.news.easynews.com>, Charlie Wilkes
>>> says...
>>>> "Something in the balance of power between the world's largest PC
>>>> vendor and the crew in Redmond has shifted, and not in Redmond's favor.
>>>> You can bet money on that."
>>>>
>>> Wrong. They said the same in 2000. Nothing happened.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Linux has changed a tad since 2000. I, for one, never dreamed I would even
>> consider Linux until MS did me the favor of accusing me of being a thief
>> until I prove otherwise THREE times with XP. That motivated me to try
>> Ubuntu and I was pleasantly surprised on how user friendly it is and how I
>> can get support without being sneered at by some MVP who is high on self
>> importance.
>
> Instead, you can get sneered at by Linux geeks who are high on self
> importance.
>
>

I have noticed there are a few of those but not as many as there are
MVPs with the same affliction.

Alias

Conor wrote:

> In article <3cudnfhW2Znn7H7YRVnytwA@giganews.com>, Stephan Rose says...
>> Zim Babwe wrote:
>>
>> > OK so in a typical day when they sell 10,000 PC's with Windows and 24
>> > PC's with Linux, will you be able to notice the shift?
>>
>> Would you please post references to where you got those numbers from?
>>
>>
> Widely available stats for the percentage of Linux installs on the
> desktop.

What does that have to do with how many PCs Dell sells with a given
operating system?

I still haven't seen a reference...

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