Re: Meanwhile, in the real world...

Just for that, I'm going to go over there and look
around for a laptop and when I get the sales pitch,
I'll ask for Linux, too.

Heh, heh. :)

They don't have used laptops, as far as I know, but
the guys over at OTV never give me a hard time about
being a Linux user when I go shopping there for stuff.
 In fact, they even have some helpful suggestions
about what they've heard/read about some hardware
working better with Linux than others.

-David.

--- Conrad Knauer <atheoi@gmail.com> wrote:

> In my quest to find an inexpensive old laptop, I
> made a pit stop at a
> computer store across from Home Depot. They had
> some there, though
> they cost rather more than I was willing to pay, but
> I was looking
> around at the used computers and one of the salesmen
> started to tell
> me about their special deal this month and so I
> politely listened. He
> read through the specs of the computer and when he
> got to the OS (Win
> XP) I interrupted him and asked if they had any
> computers with Linux
> on them. The reply I got was on the incredulous
> side with a hint of
> annoyance; I was told among other things that
> Windows was what people
> used in the "real world".
>
> Also, they had a used OEM copy of Microsoft Works
> for Windows 95 and
> since the current copies are 'like $100' they were
> willing to let it
> go for a mere $25 (or $20 cash). I politely
> declined and left;
> outside their advertising sign loudly proclaimed
> that they offered a
> virus-removal service.
>
> CK
>
> (Its nice to be back in Wonderland ;)
>
> --
> "Well, there's SPAM, egg, sausage, and SPAM. That's
> not got MUCH SPAM in it."
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Received on Thu Nov 2 19:14:25 2006