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Linux for Dell Dimension & Inspirons

330 points posted to Dimension products, Inspiron products, Linux by jyoungxxxx 02/27/07

I don't know why it has to be so hard to get linux pre-installed to PC's that people buy for home use. I would continue buying Dell PC's if I could have Linux pre-installed. Get with the program Dell... if you work with the Linespire, ubuntu, and fedora teams you could customize a good OS to go with your systems. The linux organization doesn't care about support; we have support already as long as everything is GPL'd and open to support.

Since market share is supposed to be why people support an OS then I guess Intel graphics cards should be the greatest graphics cards right? Intel has the most market share because more people have the systemboards with it built-in than people that buy with the ATI or NVIDIA cards installed so that doesn't mean that they are better at graphics (yet that is). Help Linux build of market share and you will gain more support from loyalty than you could ever realize.

I vote for Dimensions & Inspirons to have Linux pre-installed.

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