Posts Tagged ‘linux’

Recently in a 3 store …

11th January 2009

The following conversation took place in a 3 store in East Ham on 5 November 2008, while I was buying a mobile broadband dongle.

me:
Does this dongle also work with Linux?
sales girl:
Linux? Is that a special programme?
me:
No, it’s an operating system.
sales girl:

(blank stare)
me:
… like Windows or Mac OS.
sales girl:
Oh, like HP or Dell!?
me:
Ehm, no. Like Windows XP — only different …
sales girl:
(turns to a senior sales man)
Does this work with Windows Linux?
sales man:
(uncertain, at least he seems to have heard of it)
Linux is a very heavy programme …
(indicating the sheer vastness of it with his hands: about one metre)
sales man:
Could be … If it doesn’t work with Linux, install Windows XP.
me:

(unbelieving blank stare)
sales man:
It only costs about 50 pounds …