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. 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 can buy naked computers [0] if it's just the Windows license you're opposed to, or there are a few places who sell Linux preinstalled (and therefore guarantee some kind of hardware compatibility) [1][2][3]. My feeling has long been that if you want to advance the position of Linux on the desktop, you need to make the manufacturers aware that there is a market, and that you wont buy from them while they don't offer the product you want. If you just want a Linuxy machine as quickly and easily as possible, stick to boring and mainstream hardware and you're only likely to hit issues with sound. [0] http://nakedcomputers.org/ [1] http://shop.linuxemporium.co.uk/hardware/hardware-desktops.html [2] http://www.debianshop.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=6 [3] http://www.linux.org/vendor/system/index.html -- Avi Greenbury -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
