Note to John and others : *building a PC*. Anyone can go to ANY small
computer shop, talk to a techie, and have a computer built, CHEAPER and
BETTER ! Ask your techie which O/S he/she is using, if it is not Linux, get
another techie. Every techie that I know that is any good, uses Linux. Most
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If the average Joe would buy parts individually and build a computer instead
of getting a pre-built one, we wouldn't have this "Microsoft tax" to deal
with. Nobody is forcing anyone to buy a pre-built solution, but they are
there for those who eight don't know much about computers or don't want to
Don't get me wrong - I never made the assumption you mentioned. The
point is, that even if the ratio is much lower (say 2:8), the GNU/Linux
user base will start growing much faster and at some point all the
problems with 3rd-party support will be gone, leaving only the bugs
causing problems with us
I agree that Microsoft does have an unfair advantage in this sense,
but anyone who is at all tech-savvy can uninstall windows and replace
it with whatever they like.
You make the assumption that given the choice, people would choose
Linux and probably Ubuntu 9 times out of 10. I don't think this i
