[ale] OT: M$ vs. Linux netbooks

tom tfreeman at intel.digichem.net
Thu Mar 5 09:13:32 EST 2009


On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, bugy at bellsouth.net wrote:

> Well .... Fry's, BestBuy, MicroCenter, WalMart ....
>
> The only netbook with Linux you can find in WalMart, maybe because is 
> Dell :)
>
> Organized scenario .....
>
> P.S. The guy in MicroCenter was trying to explain me how I cannot do 
> anything with Linux.
>
I sort of have to laugh with dispare (sp?). All I've got around here is 
Best Buy at the moment, with Target and Wally World as the backup. As a 
result, the amount of garbage misinformation is completely obscene.

How many remember the bad old days when you could tell a _real_ computer 
oriented shop by the lack of carpet on the floor (raw concrete) because it 
was less prone to static?


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