buying a laptop either bare or with Ubuntu

Peter Dobratz peter at dobratz.us
Sat Nov 15 12:47:07 EST 2008


> I guess I'll throw my two cents in...

while we're throwing pennies around, I think a lot of time when you
buy a computer with Windows, you're actually getting the Windows OS
and a bunch of other software that you'd rather not have (crapware).
These are programs that have some means of generating revenue for
their makers and the software makers pay the PC manufacturer to have
them pre-installed.  These programs are usually Windows-only, so you
end up not getting them with Linux.

Peter


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