[QCLUG] buying laptop from dell

[Noah Norris]

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lol mention linux everyone runs away ... ( job security )


On 8/29/07, Mike Robinson <fatpuppystew@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Its the deer in the headlights look when you mention linux...most will
> back off pretty quick.
>
> On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 22:02 -0500, John Brun wrote:
> > As of late I have had real good relations with Best Buy. Mostly in the
> > warranty dept.  I have a 21 inch LCD screen that the first two I bought
> > had bad pixels.  They were replaced without question.  Couple other
> > incidents that have been handled fine.   As for Windows et al, I just
> > don't even ask questions, I politely thank them for any info, and tell
> > them I'm going to wipe the drive clean.  Usually been a short
> conversation.
> >
> > John
> >
> > Steve Langasek wrote:
> > > On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 07:41:53PM -0500, Mike Burns wrote:
> > >
> > >> Or better yet, when XP first came out and I had this guy from M$ try
> to
> > >> convince me that XP did not sit on top of DOS.  He went so far as to
> tell me
> > >> that the cmd window that you can get on XP was an emulator that sits
> on top
> > >> of XP.  Well, I convinced him that if it was indeed an "emulator"
> that that
> > >> XP didn't sit on top of DOS, then we could just rename a couple of
> obvious
> > >> DOS files and XP would still boot.  I didn't stick around long enough
> to see
> > >> if he had to reinstall or just rescue mode from the CD-ROM, but the
> look on
> > >> his face was priceless when the computer gave him a black screen with
> the
> > >> white letters saying "Operating system not found."  Naturally I had
> to throw
> > >> in there the old, "well, I guess I was right and XP does sit on top
> of DOS."
> > >>
> > >
> > > Cute story, but no, XP does not sit on top of DOS...
> > >
> > >
> >
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