> Huh?  Major "vendors: like Dell and Wal-Mart sell PCs with linux
> based OS pre-installed these days...
iirc Wal-Mart have done a few experimental lines on thier website only (not in stores) with linux but nothing major.

with dell in some cases the without windows has been more expensive than the with windows in others i belive that the price for equal spec machines was considerablly lower with linux but the lowest spec linux box had a lot more other extras than the lowest spec windows box.

i also saw people report on /. that it wouldn't let them order the linux boxes because they had specced them in a way that wasn't vista compatible.



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