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You want Ubuntu to pick the best laptop for Australia and Iceland? Or, are you saying they should conduct a global survey, researching the models available in
by bronson 10y ago
You want Ubuntu to pick the best laptop for Australia and Iceland? Or, are you saying they should conduct a global survey, researching the models available in each country and their import tariffs?
- Sir_Substance 10y ago>You want Ubuntu to pick the best laptop for Australia and Iceland? What on earth /are/ you talking about? Laptops are laptops. With the exception of the international space station, they work the same everywhere. The best laptop for Australia and Iceland is the same laptop that is the best laptop for the USA, and the XPS is pretty up there wherever you live. What I'm saying is that there's a lot of value in picking something that /isn't/ the best if the logistics and legalities of shipping it globally are better.
- bronson 10y agoSo, you don't want Ubuntu to recommend a laptop anywhere? Or you want them to recommend the best valued laptop for each country? Just trying to follow what you're saying... It seems like you described what's wrong with selecting the XPS, then here you describe why the XPS would be a good choice after all.
- Sir_Substance 10y agoYou obviously can't read. The XPS is an expensive, luxury-or-business grade item. It attracts fees and taxes everywhere it goes. I'm suggesting, for the hard-of-comprehending among us[1], Ubuntu throw it's weight behind a model that is: a) widely available from walk-in retail stores in countries that are not the US b) less than $600 in the US [1] That's you BTW
- dang 10y agoYou've broken the site guidelines more than once by posting uncivilly. We ban accounts that do that, so please don't do that. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
- Sir_Substance 10y agoOh jeez Dang, we've had this conversation before. Overzealous moderation kills websites. Funny how it's only you I ever see wandering into these situations. Take my posting history into account and make a decision. If you wanna ban me, do it and I'll go find somewhere else that enjoys robust discussion. I've certainly delivered that here, if you'd care to go take a look. However, please stop helicoptering in and tutting your finger at me. I've never seen you make meaningful contributory posts, so I don't respect you.
- DanBC 10y agoYour post got user flags. It's not just dang asking you to stop. You don't need to include "You obviously can't read." nor "for the hard-of-comprehending among us" in your post.
- tripzilch 10y agoToo bad that the whole point of why people do this passive-aggressive pretend-stupid gambit (".. just trying to understand .." is one, and ".. genuinely curious .." is another), is that it's almost impossible to call people out on, without sounding at least slightly uncivil.
- dang 10y agoThat's a good point, but the solution is worth trying harder for.
- lkbm 10y agoI think they want Canonical to recommend a laptop that's sufficiently low-cost to be accessible to a wide audience.