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byzenmojodaddy ( 754377 ) writes:
... by the same token, how many machines sold with Windows end up having Linux installed?
Both of mine, for a start.
byajs ( 35943 ) writes:
The one this post is being sent from was purchased with Linux, and is still running it. I have second desktop that was the same.
At home I have four computers (firewall, SO's desktop, my desktop, server) all of which were purchased with Windows on them. One still runs Windows full-time (SO's), one runs it every now and then (my desktop for games) and the other two have been purged of Windows and Linux is the only OS on them.
I also have a laptop for work that I use for support. It dual-boots, and I have a policy of never wiping Windows from laptops because I always end up getting some funky PCMCIA card that I need for some work thing or other and the vendor hasn't shipped a Linux driver (and no one has reverse-engineered it yet).
If you want to talk about non-desktops, I've accounted for about 1000 machines being purchased with Linux, and they've all remained Linux boxes. I've accounted for maybe 3 Windows servers in my career.
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