This is fighting a battle that doesn't need to be fought. Just get the hardware you want regardless of the OS that's pre-installed.

- You don't save significant money buying an "Ubuntu" laptop or whatever, but you severely limit your choices.
- Any pre-installed Windows OS will be full of crapware that you'll want to get rid of with a clean install anyway.
- It will be easier to resell later with the latest OS on it, if you ever want to sell it.

By making one questionable move after another we begin to believe Ubuntu's business model has failed. Now they seem to be grasping at straws. They're completely turning their back on the open software that got them here. It doesn't bode well for Linux at all.

Yeah, look how well that worked for Zune. They tried this already, why throw good money after bad? The only useful consumer brand they own is X-Box, and nobody over 24 is going to carry an "X-Phone."

They need to integrate it with Exchange, AD and Communicator. Then it'll be a useful device for corporate customers. That's their only hope, no end-user consumer wants one no matter how nice they make them.

: Are all these "stories" posed as questions really fooling anybody? I see less and less interesting news and more stories designed purely to provoke chatter. Oh boy, Unix vs Windows should get lots of posts! Maybe next time you can work Apple in there too.

It's like the blogger feedback ploy - end your crappy blog with a question and more people will respond.

Now you're just arguing semANTics.

No, the windows key has been there for a long time. The question is, how much did it cost them to run this thinly veiled press release disguised as an article on Slashdot?

The modern classroom is virtual, you watch lectures on your computer from home. Instead of taking notes you watch porn.

"You found my Hot Spot baby!"

Everybody was all up in arms with Ubuntu went with Unity. It was a head scratcher for a lot of folks unless you think about it from their point of view. The desktop is arguably the most important part - if users don't like it, that's it baby game over. Now imagine putting your whole product's future in the hands of Gnome or KDE. Those teams are like herds of ADHD children running amok with knives. KDE and Gnome had a decade to get their act together, they missed the boat on a Windows CE epic scale.

Education costs money, and you're fighting a culture of profit.

So long as it's profitable for vendors to increase profits they'll keep selling larger and larger portions, no matter how unhealthy it is. This is how the American public has been taught how to eat - by corporations with a profit motive.

This is not an assault on your rights. Well ok, it is. It's really intended to fight unscrupulous sugarwater vendors. At least it's something. They started with cigarettes many years ago and decades later it's had some effect.

The idiots! What's next, a rose without a scent? Sex without babies? Hey, wait a second....

Awesome, at 10% of full speed you'll get nearly an hour before hitting the cap. That's a tenfold improvement, fire up the marketing machine!

I personal use I like Ubuntu / Debian. But for work I would use Fedora, because for production work you'll almost certainly be using Redhat.

They can have my drone when they pry it out of my cold, dead.... Oh, wait.

Slashdot itself is guilty of promoting unfounded blog posts/rumors as news, practically every day. For profit. Journalism is on life support.