It's not like Dell didn't try a Linux desktop, Dell added. The Austin, Texas-based company "tried that with Red Hat on the OptiPlex and Dimension lines, but we had too many people not buying and saying we picked the wrong one." By 2001, Dell was no longer offering a Linux desktop to its usual retail customers.
So when you claim that Dell didn't sell machines with Linux preinstalled, what are we to make of such statements? Kinda sounds like what one would expect of a zealot, doncha think?
Have you considered a switch to decaf?
I didn't claim anything, I simply showed up on the thread where one of the linux fanbois posted this article claiming Dell was announcing they were going to sell Linux on home desktop computers, and expressed my belief it was just another load of bunk, like we are so used to seeing from that crowd. I even referenced a second article from that same author, admitting it was a all a lie, and that he was ashamed he couldn't get the Linux desktops like he had promised would be available. Yet here is yet ANOTHER thread on the whole fiasco, with Dell not even giving a timetable, but rather, asking the impossible of the fanbois - give us a single, reliable, legal version of Linux, or forget it. In fact, I think that's how most of us feel.