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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Subject: Re: I asked System76 if they would sell a Windows system
Date: 10 Jan 2025 00:19:22 GMT
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On Thu, 09 Jan 2025 13:52:21 -0500, Joel wrote:

> rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
>>On Thu, 9 Jan 2025 11:11:47 -0500, DFS wrote:
>>
>>> I wasn't complaining.  I was curious if they would sell a Windows
>>> system.  Thru the years I've asked 6 or 8 Windows PC vendors if they
>>> would sell Linux preinstalls.
>>
>>And their answers?  Dell has a number.
>>
>>https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/scr/laptops/appref=ubuntu-
>>linux-os
> 
> 
> Not bad.  Although Ubuntu has never been my preferred distro.

I'll agree with that. After my update to 24.04 yesterday I found I have a 
block of BSD games on the menu.

https://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/BSD_games

WTF?  Even more confusing while there is an icon they have to be started 
from the command line in a terminal. I didn't like 'adventure' back in the 
day and certainly didn't expect it to be part of an 'upgrade'