[ubuntu-uk] Linux On Dell

2010-05-24 Thread Dianne Reuby
Out of curiosity I went into Currys Digital on Saturday - they too are only selling Windows 7 machines and say installing another OS would invalidate the hardware guarantee. I'm sure that my paranoia about MS sales methods is getting out of hand, but I can't help wondering. Dianne --

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux On Dell

2010-05-24 Thread Alan Pope
On 24 May 2010 09:37, Dianne Reuby pramc...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Out of curiosity I went into Currys Digital on Saturday - they too are only selling Windows 7 machines and say installing another OS would invalidate the hardware guarantee. Company policy or the opinion of clueless Saturday

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux On Dell

2010-05-24 Thread francis
On 24 May 2010 09:39, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 24 May 2010 09:37, Dianne Reuby pramc...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Out of curiosity I went into Currys Digital on Saturday - they too are only selling Windows 7 machines and say installing another OS would invalidate the hardware guarantee.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux On Dell

2010-05-24 Thread Dianne Reuby
On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 09:39 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: Company policy or the opinion of clueless Saturday staff? Probably policy - the sales person I spoke to went away to ask a colleague (without being asked to do so). He actually recommended trying PC World! Dianne --

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux On Dell

2010-05-23 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On Saturday 22 May 2010 13:50:00 Nigel Verity wrote: Re: Dianne Reuby's news that Dell say the use of any OS other than Windows will invalidate the hardware guarantee. I've run Ubuntu on Dell since 5.04. I've called for support 5 times across 5 laptops - once for a bad fan, and 4 times for

[ubuntu-uk] Linux On Dell

2010-05-22 Thread Nigel Verity
Hi Re: Dianne Reuby's news that Dell say the use of any OS other than Windows will invalidate the hardware guarantee. While this might be Dell's opening gambit, I can't see they would pursue it all the way to court. The cost of demonstrating that a particular feature of an OS puts an

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux On Dell

2010-05-22 Thread Simon Greenwood
It really means that Dell aren't willing to support Linux on their hardware, which suggests that their experiment of the last two or three years might have come to an end On 22 May 2010 12:50, Nigel Verity nigelver...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi Re: Dianne Reuby's news that Dell say the use of any

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux On Dell

2010-05-22 Thread Simon Greenwood
Oops, sent early There wouldn't be any legal issues as all that Dell can do is refuse to support your machine in that configuration. In the event of a return to base repair, it might return with a factory build of Windows on it, or, if necessary, do it yourself before it goes back. s/ On 22 May