[Leaplist] Re: More Anti-Linux Propaganda from MicroSuck and Worst Buy

[Homer Whittaker]

Bryan; Thanks for the comments in re your laptop. 
My wife has an HP 64 XP that I did not want to mess with, simply because
I did not want to mess her thingy up.

Based on your comments I most likely will put "Ubuntu" on it and blow
away the XP.

Homer Whittaker


Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> I have a long-standing history of what Microsoft does at Best Buy.
> I have a long-standing history of what Microsoft does at Tier-1 PC OEMs.
>
>
> Do I boycott any of them?  Of course not.
>
> I fully take advantage of Microsoft's "subsidy" at Best Buy and Tier-1
> PC OEMs.  I buy things they are losing money on, and ignore all their
> sales for over-priced, huge mark-up accessories, even as they are
> nearly tackling me out-the-door.
>
> I don't ever mention I run Linux (made that mistake once, and got the
> "you don't like Windows or something?" comment), I just cheerfully buy
> what they are going to lose money on.  That's their approach and I take
> full advantage of it.
>
> My over year old personal laptop is a Best Buy-only Gateway P-7811FX,
> a model configuration solely sold at Best Buy at a loss.  Gateway doesn't
> support it and I have to go to Geek Squad if I have an issue.  I haven't had
> an issue because I run Linux.
>
> In fact, the pre-installed MS Vista Home Premium Edition 64-bit that comes
> with it had several driver issues that Fedora 9+ x86 and x86-64 did not upon
> installation and with every update (now at Fedora 11).  Everything is supported
> natively -- from suspend to hibernate, from wireless (including coming back
> from suspension) to the nVidia power save to 3D.  And it's better than Vista
> at suspension/hibernate as well.
>
> I thank Best Buy for letting me get a notebook with a GeForce Go 9800GTS
> 512GiB GDDR discrete RAM (over 1GiB with shared), 4GiB DDR3 RAM,
> high-res 1920x1200 LCD panel, etc... for half the price of an equivalently
> equipped Dell XPS notebook (basically the only vendor that offered anything
> close).
>
> Today I'd likely give my business to a Tier-2 recently mentioned on the
> list that pre-installs Linux instead, but I like my inexpensive Gateway notebook
> that continues to work flawlessly for over a year.
>
>
>
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> Bryan J  Smith           Professional, Technical Annoyance 
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> controlled distribution channels of forced bundle and lock
>
>
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