Microsoft Will Remove OEM Bloatware For A Fee

TheBlueChanell said:
The only thing not true in there is the wide adoption rate. It can be very easy to use, hardware compatibility, to me, has been pretty good on my wide array of deployments and the total cost of ownership is usually free.
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It's been a while since I've installed Linux, about two years, but there's has ALWAYS been something on the hardware end that I had trouble with.

And total for cost of ownership isn't free for ANYTHING. Sure the attainment cost is zero, but when you consider time and unless all the software is free then the cost is more than zero. In fact this is why Linux hasn't done well on the desktop because the cost of attainment of the OS is such a small fraction of everything else that it ends up not being worth it to most people to convert from Windows.

Now if you're starting from scratch and don't have any specific needs for software or support or need things that Linux is good at and time isn't of great value then Linux can be very cost effect.
 
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