<story><title>Dell/Alienware release Ubuntu gaming desktop</title><url>http://alienware.com/ubuntu/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>notatoad</author><text>This seems like the sort of thing where they don&apos;t really care whether they sell any or not.  Gaming on Ubuntu is a hot blog topic right now, so they took an existing product and put Ubuntu on it. Probably cost a couple thousand to do all the paperwork surrounding a new SKU, and they&apos;ll probably sell enough of these to make cover that.  Boom, Free marketing and some cred with the indie gaming &amp;#38; Linux community.  And if Steam on Linux does take off, they&apos;ve already got their foot in the door.&lt;p&gt;It&apos;s kind of awesome that we&apos;re at a place where releasing a Ubuntu desktop is a matter of &quot;why not?&quot; Rather than &quot;why?&quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>Dell/Alienware release Ubuntu gaming desktop</title><url>http://alienware.com/ubuntu/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>neya</author><text>This is interesting, but not compelling.&lt;p&gt;I want:&lt;p&gt;1) Better video drivers.&lt;p&gt;2) An option to Dual-boot with another OS.&lt;p&gt;3) To remove the painful Unity interface.&lt;p&gt;4) More titles to play.&lt;p&gt;And then I would buy this without a second thought.&lt;p&gt;With just Ubuntu, with very little games with mediocre Graphic card drivers and a painful interface like unity (try hiding/unhiding/switching between hidden windows for example) it&apos;s hard to convince myself to buy this..</text></comment>