Ubuntu To Soon Ship On 5% Of PCs

Post by freehunter » Wed, May 09, 2012, 11:24 AM UTC

uvtc wrote: post #65

freehunter wrote: post #9

Here's the big question on my mind: why can I not go on Amazon right now and buy an Ubuntu laptop? There is one I have seen (and I have searched for a while), where someone is reselling used laptops with Ubuntu installed. There are so many device makers out there trying to replicate the feel of a MacBook Pro with Windows. Seems like it would be easier with Ubuntu. The success of Apple sprang mostly from marketing and…

You can get ThinkPads loaded with your distro-of-choice from [Los Alamos Computers]( http://laclinux.com/gnu/Start ).

The main point was the "from Amazon" part. It really seems like the largest online retailer would have some company, no matter how big or small, selling Linux laptops.

Post by b0rsuk » Thu, May 10, 2012, 8:36 PM UTC

fierarul wrote: post #36

b0rsuk wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Debian upgrades never break for me.

So if I upgrade, for example, on a disk with low disk space it magically rolls back?

In this particular case the upgrade was interrupted. I have around 250MB on my / partition now. But as I prefer to upgrade from text console, I caught all "out of space" messages and fixed it trivially (made more room, repeat the command). That's the only problem I ever had with a Debian upgrade. I typically use testing.

Now Ubuntu upgrades are hidden behind a GUI, and you are told not to do it manually. It's not uncommon that they fail to cover all difficult cases. Either way, I have Ubuntu on my mother's machine and I've become scared of making upgrades. A few times I had to drop to IRC to ask for specific instructions because I couldn't figure it on my own.

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