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2009-08-24 , 15:12
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Originally Posted by ColdFusion View Post
That's not a problem of Linux. It's a problem of people not reading what they're buying. After that when they get the brown desktop they return it immidiately, not because it's hard, different, or broken, just because it's not-windows.
If I buy a car with gears, I cannot expect that it'll be automatic and return it because of that.
I never said it was a problem of Linux. To follow your analogy; if you sell a car with gears in the USA, and people don't realize they are different to drive until the first week after they buy it, that too would have higher return rates, yes? Your point.

My point: If the car salesman sold a lot of cars with gears to Americans, and they kept returning it at a (somewhat, not four or five times) higher return rate, he'd favour the model with automatic transmission, because the extra mass of returned cars would be a problem for him.

You can blame MSI for misguiding people when they buy notebooks with Linux, so people expect Windows. But whatever problem MSI had in communicating this, Nokia might experience. Why would Nokia want that?