Linux
submitted by ecruz
05/07/07
I am willing to bet that Dell will not be selling desktop linux by the summer of 2008.
I am sure that 99.9% of the people that asked for linux at the Dell site were already running linux, advocates, and will not buy a Dell PC anyway.
I have tried suse from 9.0 through 10.2, Kubuntu, Freespire, and I guarantee you that 99% of all people will not devote the time you need just to get linux to connect to the Internet with a ethernet card, least to think of going wireless.
So, once you do all that, weeks on end finding the solutions. Then what? Can you play just simples games like my wife likes to do on gamesville.com, NO!
Dell didn't see or failed to see because the threat from HP, that it is not just email, Internet, and openoffice that most users want. They want to be able to buy whatever they see in the store, and that, they won't be able to do with any flavor of linux.
Dell Linux PC's better be lopaded with all the codecs, etc, that users will need to play their cd's, DVD's, MPGs, etc. Not to do this, will be more foolish than the original idea, preloading linux.
By the way, I am using Vista and have had no problems at all. But if Dell thought this well, OpenSuse should have been the way to go, it is more polished than ubuntu.
