Ah, Best Buy, You Are My Comedy Central

[elfs]

I went to Best Buy to price some backup storage, since there are those new ~500MB USB-only drives out there. The guy who decided that a backup drive should be the exact same size and shape as a Moleskin deserves a freakin' Clio for that kind a brilliance.

As I was looking at the selection, a blue-shirted salesdude, older than the average, leaned over said, "Do you need any help?"

I picked up the model I was looking at, a Seagate, and said, "What does this work with?"

"That works with everything." He smiled as if there were a joke hidden somewhere in his reply.

"So, does it work with Ubuntu?"

He said, "Is that for Windows or Mac?"

I sighed. "It's neither. It's an operating system."

"Oh. I don't know."

At least he didn't say, "I doubt it" or something. I put the drive back.

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[yamazakikun.livejournal.com]

PC World can't even sell Windows properly. I bought an MSI Wind from them, but ended up returning it because a) MSI swapped out the Synaptics trackpad the computer originally shipped with for a fifth-rate knockoff; and b) not only did this new trackpad not work with Linux, it didn't even work with Windows. The default load didn't have the right driver, and the in-store drooling idiots couldn't find it online, so no problems returning the PoS. Which is too bad, because if MSI had kept the Synaptics trackpad that was one nice netbook, even if it did have the Microsoft tax.