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NewEgg: Installing Linux Breaks Laptop

Posted by timothy on from the au-contrair-mon-frere dept.

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?"

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  1. Re:Unit cannot be resold as received? by alen · · Score: 0, Troll

    and glitchy drivers can cause these things. first thing the user should have done was reinstall the OS to the way it came out of the box to see if the issues go away

  2. Thank you. by loconet · · Score: 1, Troll

    Thank you, now I know to never buy absolutely anything from this company and never recommend it to anyone, as a matter of fact warning people about buying anything from them would be the responsible thing to do.

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  3. Re:Unit cannot be resold as received? by DaveV1.0 · · Score: 0, Troll

    If Northrup failed to make backup/restore disks for the installed operating system and returned the laptop with Linux on it, the unit cannot be fixed and resold as received because it no longer has the installed operating system and will cost Newegg money to replace. Also, the operating system can be considered an accessory to the hardware.

    Really, this is her own fault for not making restore disks before installing Linux on the machine.

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  4. No worries by ThatsNotPudding · · Score: 1, Troll

    UEFI* will take care of all of this.



    * - UEFI still fittingly reminds me of UFIA.