Micro Center isn't a happy home for Linux

Posted by dcparris on Apr 17, 2006 11:42 PM EDT
NewsForge; By Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
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Last November, Linspire issued a press release announcing that Micro Center would be devoting floor space and staff to desktop Linux. I decided to take a trip to my local Micro Center this week to see how that initiative was going. Unfortunately, the answer is not so well.

[That seems to be the approach many retailers, including a number of smaller custom PC shops take. Then they wonder why there's no interest in GNU/Linux. Hmmm... - dcparris]

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