Re: [OT] Free XP WiFi utility which shows channel numbers of networks?



Unruh wrote:
mak <mak@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Unruh wrote:

If you are in Europe, you can probably find someone with a Linux system
installed on a laptop.
just out of curiosity: people on other continents don't install linux on laptops?

They tend to be more popular amongst the populace in Europe than in the USA
I believe. The chances of his having Linux on his laptop in the USA is
small.

Things aren't that good here in Europe either. Lenovo offered for a brief time pre-installed Linux in ThinkPads, but they dropped it, because the customers didn't ask for it. If you see Linux in a laptop, it's a recirculated machine run by a geek, not a corporate tool.

-- Lassi
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