KDE 4 and Kubuntu?

[Dan Lund]

It boils down to being unfamiliar with Linux in this position, which
means you should buy a Windows machine with those questions.

Thanks,
Dan Lund
It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it
to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to
act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have
free scope.
-Niccolo Machiavelli



On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Joshua Zeidner <jjzeidner at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 14:09 -0700, Joshua Zeidner wrote:
>> >
>> >  Stephen,
>> >
>> >    Im not knocking them personally.  I find it commendable that they
>> > plainly state their return policy, which unfortunately many vendors
>> > like them do not.
>> >
>> ----
>> I didn't think 15% restock fee was out of line at all.
>
>    If you're willing to pay for it... by all means- go right ahead.  But if
> I bought a system and then I found out Skype or something else doesn't work
> properly and I had to pay a 15% restocking fee, I'd be a little upset.  This
> is the problem with Linux support, its notoriously unmanageable, and often
> times the 'community' is driven by somewhat manic tech-heads who refuse to
> conform to any idea whatsoever, let alone a technological standard.
>
>>
>>
>> Obviously taking back returns without restocking fees (i.e. Fry's, Costco,
>> etc.) is a marketing scheme.
>
>    Not really sure how to parse 'marketing scheme' here, but if you mean 'a
> way to sell something' - yep it sure is.  I can take it home, see how it
> plays with my hardware, use it for a few weeks, and if it doesn't stick, all
> money is refunded.  Hardly a 'scheme' if were using this word as some kind
> of negative.  Setting up this marketing scheme requires a lot of business
> development with hardware vendors, etc.
>
>    Sorry if Im letting down the Linux revolution, but you've got to face the
> reality of what the average person gets with a major distributor.
> Eventually, Im sure someone will figure out how to make the Big Mac of linux
> PCs, and Im also sure that 50+% of people on this list will reject it on the
> basis its not 'true linux'.  -jmz
>
>>
>>
>> Craig
>>
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