Damn, Thinkpad T40 is ****ing famous.
Get your story straight. Are you booting with a Live CD or are you dual
booting? Or did you try Live CD and then dual boot?
I tried the Ubuntu live CD to make sure it would work ok, and then I
installed it on the hard drive along with XP.
It is perfect.
Most customers are ****ing stupid.
You must be crazy then.
As I said, customers are stupid. They will walk into a big store, see a
Windows computer and bring that damn box home. Freaks will stand in
queues for hours and days in the freaking cold to get their hands on
some $300 junk Windows on Black Friday. Why do you think Vista sells?
Because people buy it. Don't give me the baloney that people are forced
to buy it. If they wanted to buy a system pre installed with Linux, they
would...if they ever knew what Linux was.
Of course people aren't forced to buy Windows... but for many years now,
it has been the most readily available option, and it is the one all
their friends are buying and talking about, so they follow the herd.
But certain factors are changing the situation in 2008, opening people's
minds to new possibilities. One is Microsoft's own fault... Vista
stinks, enough so OEMs have been forced to continue offering systems with
XP. People/businesses with good-running XP systems are being advised not
to buy anything.
The other factor is external... low-priced, Linux-based machines like the
Cloudbook, Eee PC, Zonbu, etc. They are coming to market on the theory
that some people want a basic system that is simple to use. If even one
of these products takes off, MS will have a whole new category of
competition. And it will be a category where anyone can play, from the
smallest custom builder to the biggest OEM.
Charlie
