Re: Another Linux Computer Flipped.

From: Flashes of Sky (mimi001_at_austarnet.com.au)
Date: 11/06/05 

Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2005 17:13:06 +1100

Kenny Dugan wrote:
> My sister calls me the other day saying she is having terrible problems
> with her newly purchased desktop computer system.
> I asked a couple of questions and from what she was telling me I
> admit I had no idea what the trouble was. She also told me her
> boyfriend and also her neighbor looked at the system and they
> couldn't figure out what was wrong either.
> The only thing she kept saying was "I've never seen a version of
> Windows that looks like this and neither has anyone else I have
> shown this thing to".
>
> So I drive over to her house and take a look for myself.
> Hey, who is going to turn down home brewed beer!
>
> Turns out that she unknowingly bought this thing:
>
> http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=3762911
>
> She was trying to install AOL from CD along with Office 2003, some
> games and some software that she needs to use for her business which
> is mostly home grown stock analysis programs. She also complained
> that her laser printer did not work (I did make this sort of work
> but not at the higher resolutions and not in toner saver mode)
>
> I recognized Linux immediately (Linspire) and told her that she
> didn't buy a Windows PC but a Linux PC and that it would not run
> most of the Windows programs she already owned.
>
> She went NUTS (not at me, but at Walmart).
> ...how can they sell this junk
> ...Linux? WTF is that?
> ...Am I stuck with some pile of *** here?
> She called Walmart and they seemed to know all the answers to this
> problem which led me to suspect this was a common occurrence.
> The bottom line was that it would cost her almost $100.00 to ship
> the POS back so we had to come up with a better solution.
> The solution was a copy of Windows XP from Staples at $79.00 on
> sale.
> She was not happy about having to spend more money on this adventure
> but she, her boyfriend and everyone else they talk to are at least
> educated about Linux.
>
> Another Linux machine flipped to Windows XP.
> I suspect many of these so called Linux machines end up like this
> mostly because people just don't know they are being hoodwinked into
> an operating system that virtually nobody is using.
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Uh... Why would you need to even install MS Office, doesn't Linspire
come with OpenOffice?

Sorry to all the Linspire users out there, I'm an Ubuntu user, so I'm a
dumbass when it comes to that.

Nobody is using Linux? Are you blind or just extremely stupid? Take a
look at this:
        http://counter.li.org/