On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 03:04:05PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 10:18:05AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 01:12:20PM -0500, Rick Reynolds wrote: > > > It's probably worth getting a > > > larger hard drive and keeping a Dell-supported OS on there as a dual > > > boot option just so you can verify that any problems you're having are > > > not hardware related. But if you're more hardware savvy than I am, that > > > might not be an issue for you (this is my first laptop I've ever owned). > > > > how ironic is it that you have to keep around a notoriously unreliable > > operating system to prove to the manufacturer that their hardware is > > failing... > > > > A > That seems to be a bigger issue than get a pseudo-ms-less desktop like > Dell now offers. You can get it with a freedos floppy but you have to > buy a box of Suse which Dell will not install or support. So how exactly > will Dell (or any ISP for that matter) help you with issues if you dont > have a supported OS that they say you need to check the HW? And of > course that any free OS system will just cost more. So it is less than > useless to have an OS-free machine, if in order to get support from Dell > or other folks, you need Winblows for them to address and fix your > computer woes. You will always need winbows to get official support and > to install bios updates and other things. > It seems with a free os you can never recieve support from an ISP, hw > manufacture, laptop maker, etc. Unless you find someone like system76, > pogolinux, etc. And that is not much in the way of consumer choice. more and more I think I should be building and selling debian-installed computers... A
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