David Kaplan wrote: > Here's the latest Blog of Helios. > http://www.linuxlock.blogspot.com/ > > Ken points out that Best Buy, Office Depot and others are lying to people > about Linux so they only think to buy Windows 7. > > Maybe it's time to speak with some of these managers make them aware of > their misinformation. I'll bring my laptop w/ Ubuntu on it and give them a > demo so they can see for themselves what Linux is, because most employees > and managers are ignorant of Linux and it's time they did know the truth.
You'll get nowhere. The stores are just following orders from corporate. Corporate is getting fat checks from MS or other incentives and unless you have something better to offer you'll get nowhere. They just want to make money. What you could do is get 5 brand new random laptops and a few carts full of brand new peripherals, make a YouTube video showing these things working in a way plug-n-play was meant to be. Of course they had better work. :) Most likely any troubles you do have would be similar to installing peripherals on Windows with all the driver/app bundling bloat going on for some time now. Oh what's that? You don't have $10K lying around to spend to get this all done? Yeah, me neither. But this document got out to the public, and the best way to fight it would be the same. Not at the stores. I think Linux does a great job keeping up with new devices. But I think where Windows fails miserably is with legacy hardware. My wife uses Windows XP on a Dell Inspiron 600M. This laptop is about 6 years old now. But, it has 2GB of memory and a 160GB hard drive with a 1.8GHz Pentium-M. I threw Win7 on it to see how it would work, and while overall performance was actually pretty on par with XP, the ATI Mobility wasn't supported under 7 (or Vista for that matter). I got a driver that finally worked, but some of the built-in apps still wouldn't run claiming the video card wasn't sufficient. A perfectly usable laptop except for one unremovable peripheral. I don't know whether to blame MS, ATI or Dell more. If you don't mention the age of the machine, the specs don't look half bad, and plenty to run any modern OS. But I find especially with older video cards, scanners and some printers that this latest set of slides slamming Linux is pretty hypocritical. -- m0gely _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
