It is now official. Ubuntu just made another huge step towards world domination :)
Seriously tho, it's a very important moment for desktop Linux. A lot depends on how Dell's efforts work out. It's the first desktop Linux deployment of that scale. Whatever happens, people are gonna associate it with Ubuntu and Linux in general. So, if Dell screws something up, Linux will get labeled as "not working", "problematic" or something like that. Besides that, most users still see Linux as an operating system, not just the kernel. So they will shift Ubuntu's failure/success to other distros as well. Dell has to be very careful not to bust this. I just hope that Canonical will take care of the deal and make sure everything is right.
Kudos for Dell for this move. I wish I'll have a chance to play around with their flavor of Ubuntu (I bet they're gonna mod it up a little to make it more functional out-of-box). Unfortunately here in Poland we're not gonna be able to buy one of those for quite some time. Of course we could just order it in the US and get it sent here, but it would be very troublesome to get any warranty service for it. So no Ubuntu laptops for us now.
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