If I purchased a Dell PC with XP Pro on it and another with no OS installed, the price difference would be more than $50, by far.
^^^^^^^^^^^I’m wondering why the price of an Ubuntu Dell isn’t the same price as a PC without any OS installed at all.^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I doubt it.
Microsoft throws money at OEMS for windows support, money that I highly highly doubt is coming from canonical.(though it’s possible)
So Dell would likely have to build in a support cost in wheras it wouldn’t with a windows machine.
Which is to be expected. nothing is support free, but linux is clearly less support hungry than windows is; even taking out all the security issues and blunders.