Warranty!!?!?!?!?!

[Mark Phillips]

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 <michael at butash.net> 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 <irb_plug-d at maleficarum.org> wrote:
>
>> * Carruth, Rusty (aka Rusty.Carruth at 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.
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