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From : ade

Q: geekboy wrote on mon 5 feb 2007 220850 -0600 geekboy wrote the hunt for a linux pc ---- quote | where can the average south african consumer get their hands on a | new pc loaded with linux instead of windows not a lot of places | as it turns out. ---- http//www.tectonic.co.za/view name some places in the us. there would be if there were any buyers. i suppose i could ask a linux user if there were some places to buy linux computers but although i know hundreds of computer users none of them use it on their personal computers. off the top of my head i only know one place that sells linux preinstalled. frys electronics. and that is a low budget computer. you can usually get it minus monitor for $199. and it is the linspire distribution formerly lindows thanks to m$. i have it on one of my personal computers. its good to know the major operating systems if it is your job. there were a a lot of linux on new computers a few years ago but mostly got dropped as linux got a bad reputation as not being very user friendly for the new or average user. also many hardware companies do not even make drivers for it. the problem for putting it on new computers it lack of support for newer or average users. m$ can do support because of also the sales of other items to go along with their os. there is many linux providers and not many of them selling other software with their distros. mostly only expensive support. i always wanted to get into linux but feared it. its used for a lot of science aps professional astronomy & spectroscopy etc. i was always waiting for a windows version my son is a ceo and former cio or a large corp and would have given me a machine years ago .... linux is used for higher level telescope control and spectroscopy analysis software like spectrum; the windows counterparts are all pure crap full of bugs and no documentation at all real crapware eg. vspec!. im too old to do it now ......... maybe give me a headsup if you think i should do this - why is linux sucha bitch to operate jerry .