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Don't forget to blame the little guy for screwing Linux over.

Posted by buntfu on · 4 comments
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Everyone in the industry and particularly home users like to blame the obvious large targets for Linux never (at least at the time of this writing) quite making it to the average users Desktop in the masses. Many blame Microsoft, Apple, Patents or just anything proprietary in nature. However I feel that there is one particular reason, made up of millions of small contributors, of why Linux has truly never landed on the Desktop. Who or what is it you ask? Your local PC shop is just as guilty and equally damaging as any of the large proprietary companies conspiring to hold Linux down.

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ubuuser ·
In my country you can buy Linux laptops in almost all shops now a days. In fact Linux laptops are deployed in same scale or even more than windows laptops. When I was buying my laptop few years back there were OpenSUSE laptops. Since those devices were limited in the spec I required, I bought one with FreeDOS. FreeDOS has been used as the alternate OS to limit Windows licensing fee.

They display Linux laptops, but when you start discussing about the laptop as a potential buyer, first thing they say is, they will reformat it with pirated copy of windows.

JaseP ·
What country, may I ask?!?!
Koriel ·
Even in my country of origin the UK, I was buying Desktop PC's pretty much OS free they sometimes included Dos at the time now they offer it completely OS free and knock £60 of the price.

And they have been doing this for years even before linux became popular and all you wanted to do is just use a copy of windows that you already had lying around, so if your in the UK and looking for an OS free purchase then check out here http://www.scan.co.uk

Disclaimer: I have nothing to do with them other than being one of their past happy customers I wish they had a US based branch as I think what they offer is better than even Newegg.
Francy ·
@ubuuser

As I live in one of 'those' countries, I think you misunderstood. They say:they will reformat it with pirated copy of windows. They mean:they will reformat it with pirated copy of windows if you want it so ! :-)

@JaseP Thailand-Indonesia-Maleisia-Laos- even Vietnam. On my tour through South America, it wasn't that much different.

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