[mdlug] Linux Desktops For Sale

[Jeff Hanson]

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Robert Adkins<radkins at impelind.com> wrote:
> Neophyte and many regular Windows Users already wonder why a 200GB drive is
> only showing up as roughly 187GB and have been known to go on and on about
> how horribly misleading, dishonest and yadd-yadda that whole thing is.

The same ones that complained about diagonal screen size measurements of CRTs.

> Imagine someone like that looking at a computer with a 200GB Hard Drive and
> then looking at the /home "drive" and seeing that it is "only" a mere 150GB.
>
> It's already going to be difficult enough as it is to explain the concept of
> the /swap partition as the reason why their computer should have 187GB
> displayed for a 200GB hard drive, yet they only see it displaying between
> 180 and 185GB. (Assuming they run with just the /swap and the / partitions.)

They just need to be educated.

> First impressions are everything and if the first impression feels even
> remotely dishonest, that's a reason to go with what "everyone else" uses.
> Which brings everything back to ease and simplicity.

Show them that it does the same thing.  Even NTFS has formatting overhead.

> Still, the Live CD is going to be exactly the same as the standard Ubuntu
> install CD, the only difference being in the fact that it will be
> preconfigured for a particular configuration of hardware and printers as
> well as have all the latest (At the time it was made) software updates
> installed. There may also be some logo insertion and a few other elements.

No it won't.  It will need a bunch of updates at least.  They will
also need to reinstall any packages they added separately.