posted by fretinator on Thu 10th Jul 2008 19:02
Now that Best Buy sells Ubuntu Linux in their stores, I decided to buy a copy to support this move. What an adventure! I purchased it online, but good luck finding it unless you have a direct link or use the search box. I checked to see if it was in-stock at my local Best Buy, which it was, so I chose in-store pick-up.
Big mistake!
I purchased it and waited for the confirmation email. It should take 45 minutes, but it took 2 hours - just to tell me they didn't have it in stock! I figured they just didn't know what they were doing, so I drove to Best Buy anyway.
It was sitting on the shelves (3 copies)!
However, it wasn't under OS's, it was just on the shelf in a random location. That's probably why they couldn't find it. I had also looked under OS's. I took it to the pick-up counter to explain the situation - they were very dismissive. To top it all, they didn't remove the protection, and the alarms went off as I left. All this just to help out Ubuntu.
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2005-11-10
I think if Linux is going to get anywhere on home-users computers someone needs to create a Linux shop, just like Apple's, and have computers pre-loaded that people can try, ask informed people questions, and hopefully buy. Then it'll be successful on the desktop. It's not that people can't use it - it's that they can't see how it fits into what they've already got.
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2006-01-23