On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 05:38:00PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 05:30:23PM -0400, Ian Goldberg wrote:
The new Dell laptop just arrived by Purolator. I've got the Debian install CD at the ready, but before I do anything, does anyone have (local, or at least Canadian) experience with trying to get a Windows refund from a manufacturer?
I suspect Dell is going to be VERY hard to get anything out of, given they probably have their own agreement with MS, and don't even use the standard install disk. Most likely they don't even give you media.
They in fact give a "Re-installation CD", including SP1. They've got to present you with a EULA at *some* point, though. [Possibly after bootup.]
Simplest is to just let it blow up windows and forget it ever existed, when you boot Linux.
But then we don't get to impress on Dell that they really should offer to sell machines without the "Microsoft tax" included automatically. I don't really like that I'm enriching Microsoft just because I bought some hardware. - Ian -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml