[mdlug] Linux Desktops For Sale

[Aaron Kulkis]

Robert Adkins wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
> 
>   People don't always have the time or interest in being educated. The vast
> majority of people aren't like us technically oriented types. They don't
> want to know this kind of stuff.

Which is PRECISELY why they won't be discovering that a 200 GB
hard disk has only 187 GiB of file storage capacity.  They don't
know how to find out, and they don't want to learn how to find
out.