Rusty, Did you check out System 76 laptops? They come with Ubuntu installed, but I think you can ask for any distro. I have been using their hardware for a couple of years, and it is flawless. Mark On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 5:18 PM, Michael Butash wrote: > I just went through this with a new dell, where I used the local windoze > tools to make a usb backup imagine with their software to a 16gb drive, and > just tossed it in a drawer if I ever need to restore things. That > supposedly restores their recovery partitions and windoze itself, which > should be everything... > > I'd not put faith in some tier 1 rep telling you linux voids the > warranty. It was probably one of those "What is linux? Yeah, don't do > that." sort of comments ignorant agents might spew, but otherwise shouldn't > matter. If you restore the disk and bios to prior function, they should be > none the wiser anyways. > > -mb > > On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 10:37 AM, irb wrote: > >> * Carruth, Rusty (aka Rusty.Carruth@smartm.com) used 15K on Tue, 05 Sep >> 2017 at 17:21 +0000 to say: >> > >> > (By the way – does anyone remember the ‘windows refund day’ many years >> back? >> > System vendors refused to honor the refund clause stated in the EULA (or >> > whatever it was), claiming that Microsoft had to honor it, and Micro$oft >> > claimed that it was the responsibility of the system vendors (which, >> indeed, >> > it was). But as far as I know, NOBODY got their refund…. Again, >> where’s >> > the lawyers????) >> >> I remember that, as part of BALUG many years ago. I never got a refund and >> Microsoft tried to turn it to their advantage by setting up a booth. I >> think >> there's a documentary out there somewhere. >> >> When dealing with warranty crap from laptop vendors I just take an image >> of >> the drive. If I have to send it in I don't include the drive anyway, and >> I've >> never been given grief over it. Still, having an original hardware backup >> like that is kinda cool. >> >> /i. >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >