At 2005-09-25 07:21:14 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Of course, the fact remains that they are giving the customer a > > crippled OS. > > They're doing the right thing. > Since it's difficult to cover every users who use GNU/Linux on laptops > because most would have their own distinguished choice
Are you forgetting that the vast majority of people who buy computers are not already Linux users, as you seem to assume? I think it's also ridiculous to assume that the majority of experienced Linux users who buy the laptop would rush to reinstall, assuming something sensible were installed already. > it's better to ship a bare bone OS to lower the price Why should it materially affect the price whether they pre-install one distribution or another? > and leave it up to the user to choose whatever s/he wants. What the user wants is a computer that works. If it doesn't work, they will have to do something about it so that it does. If it works, most people don't care what it is. Can you imagine someone who hasn't used Linux before downloading their own "choice" of distribution and getting it to work? It's more likely that they'd take the laptop to some friend and get Windows installed (and curse whoever installed Linux in the first place, and complain to a few more people about how much Linux sucks; do you think they will distinguish between Linpus and Grampus Linux?). But I can imagine someone learning to use OpenOffice, if they didn't also have to install from scratch and didn't have to pay for Windows. -- ams _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Event: Freedel 2005, 17th & 18th September, 2005 - http://freedel.in
