+ linuxDwight Silverman looks at Dell’s offer of notebooks and desktops with the open-source operating system, Linux, already loaded and asks a very good question…”who’s really going to buy these machines?”TechBlog: Dell doing Linux, but who actually cares?:Most individual Linux users are used to installing and tweaking their own distros. They seem to be almost proud of the pain they endure in doing so — like guys in the ’50s who spent hours getting their old cars to run right, it’s a badge of honor to Linux fans that they must tinker under the hood.I think Linux users love the idea of a company like Dell offering pre-installed Linux because it validates their choice of operating system…. For a technical savvy friend I might, as long as I felt they understood the non-standard difficulties they may have to face.So like Dwight I think that Dell’s IdeaStorm Site requests for pre-installed Linux may have been skew by technical Linux users that probably would never buy a pre-loaded system anyway.
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