Hello, On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 10:55:02AM +0100, Avi Greenbury wrote: > Andy Smith wrote: > > However it all sounds like a massive hassle and personally I would > > buy the computer online using a credit card making sure the store > > was aware it was for Ubuntu. > > You'd need to do more than make them aware of what you want to do with > it; you need to have some (written) confirmation that the PC will work > with ubuntu, which they're not going to give you. There's no universal > right to be able to buy PCs that're guaranteed to work with your > favourite OS.
Fair enough, but there is a right to return it if it doesn't work out for you. > Personally, this sounds like an awful lot of hassle, and doesn't appear > to do anything but make Linux users look like awkward customers who > insist on using an OS with patchy hardware support, and give you a > woefully convoluted route to buying a PC. You'd have to be spectacularly unlucky to buy something that doesn't work after checking out the components online. If you bought it online with a credit card there is zero chance you can't send it back in this case. You don't buy computer hardware online then? Surely it's the easiest way. I can see wanting to handle some things in-store for ergonomic reasons. Cheers, Andy -- http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
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