Dell customers want Linux

[GMouse]

A few thousand ubuntu geeks will buy these systems, a few thousand linux geeks will buy these to use with other distros, and then hopefully everyone will see that linux is a geek market and nothing else.

Hopefully? Don't you want a greater installed base and mindshare? The Ubuntu community would absorb the greater majority of the newbies, but all of the FLOSS world would benefit by the greater clout.

[chrismortimore]

I've found that Dell's are usually very well behaved with Linux anyway. But it's always good to have another big company supporting Linux

[DeanLinkous]

Hopefully? Don't you want a greater installed base and mindshare?

No newbies are coming from this. If someone does not know what Ubuntu is then they certainly are not going to choose a computer with ubuntu on it. If they do, then they will complain that they thought it was some kind of app that runs on windows since windows==computer.

Geeks have done a good job spreading linux even taking a few non-geeks and introducing them to geek-dom at least enough geek-dom to do basic tasks using linux. That is how I prefer to achieve *mindshare*

It is cool to have linux compatible hardware as I said some sales would be for that very reason. Of course, what is compatible today may not be tommorrow. As previously mentioned though, the past few dells that I have ran across have been perfectly compatible anyway but that was before all the AMD/Nvidia systems.

[hcgtv]

Lots of comments over here:
http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/ ... 13147.aspx