{"id":900,"date":"2007-03-29T15:22:23","date_gmt":"2007-03-29T14:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/dell-will-sell-computers-with-linux\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:57:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:57:28","slug":"dell-will-sell-computers-with-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/dell-will-sell-computers-with-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Dell will sell computers with Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" alt=\"dell-linux-preinstalled.gif\" id=\"image899\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2007\/03\/dell-linux-preinstalled.gif\" \/>Some weeks ago I read a fun <a href=\"http:\/\/headrush.typepad.com\/creating_passionate_users\/2007\/02\/too_many_compan.html\">article<\/a> where companies were compared to bad marriages. While <em>dating<\/em> (that is, before you become a customer) they&#8217;re nice, attentive, generous and willing to please you. But once the contract is signed, most companies start treating you like a simple number on their list and tend to ignore your feedback.<\/p>\n<p>I believe Dell was thinking about this whole issue when they launched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ideastorm.com\">Ideastorm<\/a> last February. Ideastorm is an online community focused on gathering all kinds of ideas from Dell users.<\/p>\n<p>According to the company&#8217;s words:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ideastorm brings all of us closer to the creative side of technology by allowing you to share ideas and interact with other customers and Dell experts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In this way Dell has opened a communication channel between the company and its users, which is really positive. They&#8217;re free to express their opinions about their Dell experience or general technological developments. But above all, they can suggest new products and services to the company.<\/p>\n<p>So far Ideastorm has gathered more than 3,000 ideas, the top suggestion being a better support for Linux on Dell computers. Bearing this in mind, the company launched a Linux survey which was taken by more than 100,000 people. The results showed that at least 70% of them would happily use Dell computers with Linux.<\/p>\n<p>Today these users should feel proud of themselves: they have made their voices heard. Dell just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dell.com\/content\/topics\/global.aspx\/ideastorm\/ideasinaction?c=us&amp;l=en&amp;s=gen\">announced<\/a> that they&#8217;ll be offering Linux pre-installed on certain desktop and notebook computers. There&#8217;s no information about release dates yet or which Linux distributions will be available but, still, it&#8217;s definitely an important step towards a better relationship between companies and customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some weeks ago I read a fun article where companies were compared to bad marriages. While dating (that is, before you become a customer) they&#8217;re nice, attentive, generous and willing to please you. But once the contract is signed, most companies start treating you like a simple number on their list and tend to ignore &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/dell-will-sell-computers-with-linux\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dell will sell computers with Linux&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2011,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2011"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337802,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions\/337802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=900"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=900"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}