NewEgg: Installing Linux Breaks Laptop

Rick Zeman writes "According to the normally geek-friendly online store Newegg , installing Linux Mint is tantamount to breaking your new Lenovo laptop. Is it the purchaser's fault for not restoring the laptop to its original state of Windows-y goodness, or is NewEgg being too dogmatic trying to enforce a term that doesn't seem to exist?"

Comments

Re:Unit cannot be resold as received?

[hairyfeet]

Why did this person get marked as troll? That is pretty much SOP on the "I don't like it" returns, they charge a restock fee and it ends up sold as a return if they don't send it back to the factory and have it refurbed. heck best buy has a website dedicated to selling returns at marked down prices so i don't see why newegg wouldn't do a similar practice.

In the end this seems like a piece of trolling because you can bet your last dollar it don't have a damned thing to do with the OS being Linux, unless anybody here thinks they'd accept some new Windows 7 netbook if I sent it back with XP pro installed instead? We ALL know that when you return something you try to send it back as close to how you got it as possible.

And frankly the buyer in TFA was being a bit of a dumbass anyway. If you actually wanted supported hardware how many times have we heard "Well just buy it from a Linux dealer"? Its not like there is a shortage of Linux laptop dealers ATM, so basically the person in TFA got the lower price thanks to the total bullshit "Windows Tax" (which if it is WinHome or Starter the crapware makes it free and nobody is buying enough linLaptops to make it cheaper to produce than cranking out Windows machines) so this person was giving MSFT a sale for an OS they didn't want to get the lower prices and got bit in the ass. maybe if more people actually bought from Linux dealers instead of being selfish little jerks there would be enough demand for Linux that more places would actually carry it?

But that would ruin a perfectly good trolling article and a ton of "M$ Suxorz!" posts to rack up the page views, can't have that now can we? ;-)

Re:Unfortunate Reality of Being a Linux User

[Hatta]

Torrents of Windows disks should never ever be trusted

Windows itself should never be trusted. Anything of value should be done on UNIX, whether that Linux, BSD, or OSX.