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posted by mrpg on Friday November 17 2017, @05:29PM   Printer-friendly
from the but-isn't-it-free? dept.

Dude, you're gettin' a Dell!

The whole juggernaut that is now Linux on Dell started as the brainchild of two core individuals, Barton George (Senior Principal Engineer) and Jared Dominguez (OS Architect and Linux Engineer).

It was their vision that began it all back in 2012. It was long hours, uncertain futures and sheer belief that people really did want Linux laptops that sustained them. Here is the untold story of how Dell gained the top spot in preinstalled Linux on laptops.

[...] This first attempt at Linux on laptops failed mainly because most non-technical users were blinded by the cheap price and didn't understand what they were actually buying.

[...] This time the duo had the right initial market. It was big, commercial web-scale operators and their developers who were crying out for a fully supported Linux laptop.

People who do technical work, like Linux. People who don't, don't.


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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by Freeman on Friday November 17 2017, @06:02PM

    by Freeman (732) on Friday November 17 2017, @06:02PM (#598273) Journal

    People who do technical work may like Linux, but that's not a given. I manage some of the IT in the Library I work at. IT sent us an all-in-one to replace a desktop. This was one junky, slow thing, that was excruciating to use Windows on. I installed Linux on it and helped my student worker learn what they needed. Later the thing needed a new HDD due to some physical abuse (I think it was knocked off the desk a time or two.), so IT put windows back on. My student worker asked for Linux to be put back on the thing. People, like what works. The problem, is that they've never had experience with anything other than X default choice. Typically they learned to use Windows, sometimes Apple, but rarely have they even heard of Linux.

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