Dell Has Sold ‘Tens of Millions’ of Dollars’ Worth of Linux Laptops

&gt; “All PR will let me say is that from an initial investment of $40,000 it has returned, over the four years, tens of millions [of dollars]. That’s as specific as I can get.”<p>Tens of millions USD sales should map into tens of thousands of laptops. Not ground breaking but still a great ROI.

As a personal (and a bit off-topic) antidote, I buy low-end Dell servers without an OS and install Linux, BSD, or OpenBSD. This is easy to do on their web site and they&#x27;ve always run very well for me. Ebay has numerous good deals on used business Dell systems too. They are a dream to maintain, the cases and internals are so nicely organized. Lately, I just bought a Optiplex 3040 from a Microsoft store, it was easy to install Linux (dual-boot in this case).