Best Buy Is Selling Ubuntu 656
SirLurksAlot writes "It appears that Best Buy is now selling Ubuntu, both through its Web site and in its brick-and-mortar locations. Going by the release on the product page, Ubuntu has actually been available for the low, low price of $19.99 since May 6th of this year. It is being packaged as the 'Complete Edition.' While they don't specify on the site what version is being offered, a quick call to a local store revealed it to be Hardy Heron, the latest Long Term Support version. How did this development fly under the radar for over two months without anybody noticing?"
I like the customer reviews... (Score:5, Funny)
'Cons: Doesn't come in Ultimate and Premier editions'
Ha ha.
Re:I like the customer reviews... (Score:5, Funny)
I'm not surprised the same guy paid the geek squad $150 to install it for him.
Re:It flew under the radar (Score:5, Funny)
Who buys stuff they don't need?
You mean like a singing rubber fish to hand on the wall?
http://www.howstuffworks.com/singing-fish.htm [howstuffworks.com]
Simple Answer... (Score:3, Funny)
The answer is obvious - real geeks don't shop at Best Buy. We shop at Future Shop.
Re:It flew under the radar (Score:5, Funny)
Finally (Score:5, Funny)
A linux distro I can pirate.
Re:It flew under the radar (Score:5, Funny)
5. [pure personal intuition] Nowadays, mouth-to-mouth is still the best way to spread Ubuntu, or any Linux distro, and hey, the initial mouths know where to get it, and that won't be Best Buy. And that relates to your comment.
Emphasis is mine.
Either this guy is only telling women about Ubuntu, or I'm glad he didn't tell me about Ubuntu!
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Re:Best Buy review (Score:3, Funny)
By StarReviewer from Moronville, KY Read all my reviews
From Moronville?
Isn't that just outside of Dumbshitsburg?
Re:It flew under the radar (Score:5, Funny)
It might also ask you if you've restarted your computer, or tried booting into Safe Mode.
Re:It flew under the radar (Score:5, Funny)
If they were already running Ubuntu or another modern operating system I would agree with you but that's not the case. The target market is people running Win98/Me/Vista. The 98/me folks can't get the piece of crap to burn a CD while the suckers who bought vista can't get networking to work right.
Re:Not going to fly... (Score:4, Funny)
What about a downloaded-sharpie version and $19.50? :-)
Shops on UK university campuses sell Ubuntu... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:It flew under the radar (Score:5, Funny)
That's about right. If you're looking for Ubuntu, you don't typically go buy it – and if you come across it at Best Buy, you're not going to know what it is. Who buys stuff they don't need?
The same people who paid money for a 'pet rock'.
Ubuntu? (Score:2, Funny)
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oh, gee (Score:4, Funny)
How long until people get sued for pirating Ubuntu?
Re:It flew under the radar (Score:5, Funny)
Re:It flew under the radar (Score:1, Funny)
...and hardware support is a thing of the past.
You're describing Vista here, right?
Re:It flew under the radar (Score:3, Funny)
Re:It flew under the radar (Score:5, Funny)
Who buys stuff they don't need?
I heard somewhere, that a man will buy 1$ item for 2$ if he needs it...And a woman will buy 2$ item for 1$ even if she does not need it.
So, all we need to do is, attach a price tag of 39.95$ to Ubuntu, place it near lipstick section and put a big banner of '50% discount sale' above it :)
It's just like the cereal isle (Score:3, Funny)
"Mommeeeeee! Please buy me Ubuntu! Please, please please?"
Re:It flew under the radar (Score:2, Funny)
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Re:It flew under the radar (Score:5, Funny)
The friend or the monkey?
Re:It flew under the radar (Score:3, Funny)
That explains the Taiwanese housewives.
Re:It flew under the radar (Score:2, Funny)
But while you're dying I'll be still alive. And when you're dead I will be still alive.
Re:I like the customer reviews... (Score:5, Funny)
'Cons: Doesn't come in Ultimate and Premier editions'
Ha ha.
Not only that, he paid $150 to have Geek Squad install it, and he did all this after paying to upgrade to Vista Ultimate, and he did this because he didn't want to spend tons of money on Microsoft Office when Ubuntu comes with its own free office suite, apparently oblivious to the fact that the same free office suite is also available for Windows, which he already paid for.
Brilliant.
MOD PARENT DOWN (Score:4, Funny)
As I mentioned to the first commenter who pointed out that I was mistaken, I made a bonehead mistake. Please mod parent down.
Re:It flew under the radar (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Best Buy review (Score:1, Funny)
apt-get install mythtv
Ok, i typed that into the office program.
Now what?
Re:It flew under the radar (Score:3, Funny)
Yes but is that pet rock the COMPLETE edition?
Re:Not going to fly... (Score:1, Funny)
The store version makes a better Christmas present than a downloaded-sharpie version.
You give Linux distros as Christmas present? I'd hate see what you give for an anniversary gift.
Re:It flew under the radar (Score:4, Funny)
Re:It flew under the radar (Score:3, Funny)
I take it you didn't hear about the Gutsy Gibbon?
Re:It flew under the radar (Score:3, Funny)
I'll take "Things People Who Shop At Best Buy Do" for $200, Alex.
Re:It flew under the radar (Score:3, Funny)
Did you buy your UID on Ebay?
It's really easy to find out [google.de] what Long Term Support means for Ubuntu even if somehow you managed not to read or hear about it for the last 3 years.