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2009-08-25 , 06:47
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Originally Posted by ColdFusion View Post
Well you can't drive a car without a drivers license. And you can't excuse it by saying "I just need the car to get to work, I didn't know it had this steering wheel and brakes and all that complicated stuff!"
I think the relevant points here are that the buyer:
a). Bought from a name that she trusted (ie: Dell)
b). That Dell recommended Ubuntu with said product from that web page that she bought it from (flashed briefly in the news reel).

if you don't know about Linux, then you surely wouldn't know what to ask about it. You'd probably just ask if you can perform the normal tasks with it, which the answer be "Yes, but...<very long and detailed technical answers to follow>.

Linux hasn't been in the public's radar before this, so people (90% of the mass, the non poweruser) never had to care what OS is on their non Apple computers that they're buying. Cause they're getting Windows with it.