[mythtv-users] OT: 13 reasons why Linux won't make it to a desktop near you
David Brodbeck
gull at gull.us
Fri Nov 9 22:38:05 UTC 2007
On Nov 9, 2007, at 1:57 PM, Brian Wood wrote:
> jedi at mishnet.org wrote:
>
>>
>> If it were just about free then Dell and Packard Bell could
>> have preloaded Linux (or even something else) a long-long time ago.
>
> Packard Bell ???
>
> I think they went out of the computer biz long before Linux came
> along.
They're still around in Europe, where their product quality was
apparently not quite so abysmal. Haven't seen anything by them in a
long time in the U.S., though. They have the dubious honor of one of
the only computer manufacturers I've ever anti-recommended when asked
what kind of computer to buy. (As in, "Whatever you do, don't buy a
Packard Bell.") At one time PC World ranked them as having made the
worst PCs of all time.
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