Re: I asked System76 if they would sell a Windows system

rbowman wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

On Thu, 09 Jan 2025 13:52:21 -0500, Joel wrote:
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rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Thu, 9 Jan 2025 11:11:47 -0500, DFS wrote:
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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.

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And their answers?  Dell has a number.
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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.

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I'll agree with that. After my update to 24.04 yesterday I found I have a
block of BSD games on the menu.
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https://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/BSD_games
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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'

Adventure is already installed on my Debian and Arch systems. They seem to be
compiled with different options, though. And stored in completely different
places.

On Arch, not a lot of room taken up:

% ls -l /usr/bin/adventure
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 97464 May  1  2024 /usr/bin/adventure
me@mlsleno ~
% ldd /usr/bin/adventure
        linux-vdso.so.1 (0x000074b9a9f3a000)
        libc.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc.so.6 (0x000074b9a9d01000)
        /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 => /usr/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x000074b9a9f3c000)

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