Jim Good point about the returns - what support, if any, are Tesco's offering?
Maybe a quiet word with the store manager and a note left with the customer services desk with details of how to contact the local LUG or us? This goes back to a posting summer time about duplicating the Ohio Support Line in the UK - maybe we get someone in Conomicals PR department to speak to Tesco to fund everything we talked about last time? E -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jim Kissel Sent: 20 October 2007 18:25 To: British Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu via Tescos Keith Cleaver wrote: > Rob Beard wrote: >> Keith Cleaver wrote: >> >>> John Levin wrote: >>> >>>> Just found this: >>>> http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.200-3224/btnResultSort.x%3d509/btnResultSort.y%3 d291.aspx >>>> and >>>> http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.200-6129/btnResultSort.x%3d509/btnResultSort.y%3 d291.aspx >>>> >>>> Anyone tried one? >>>> >>>> John >>>> >>> I thought only Dell were authorised to sell PC's with Ubuntu pre-installed? >>> >>> >> Technically being free software anyone is allowed to preinstall Ubuntu. <snip> >> >> Rob >> >> >> > OK, thanks for clearing that up. > > It's a good move, but: > > 1) How many people buy a PC from Tesco in the first place? 1,000's > > 2) Won't the Linux branding scare off a few people, especially if it's > something they haven't heard of before (which is likely)? Most won't know until their local, helpful, MS-expert has a look at it and says, "This isn't windows......", which may lead to a large number of returns. > -- People choose Microsoft Windows for their PC in the same manner that the citizens of Soviet Russia elected the General Secretary of the Communist Party during the cold war. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
