ken wrote:
Looking for my next linux laptop too, I'm loving this thread.
A tangential yet very much related question:
In the past when I've purchased a computer and put linux on it, I always had to keep Windows on it (dual-boot) in case there was a probable hardware problem and I had to walk through the tech supporter's manual with her doing Windows things to make the determination. So if I get a laptop from dell and it has linux only installed on it by them, can I still get tech support from dell for their hardware? Has anyone been down this road yet?
If you do, as I said, get an "business" laptop, not the consumer grade. And even then... if you need support, you'll have to get them to route you to "enterprise support", since the laptop/desktop support still don't know Linux. On the other hand, if you do talk to them, you could always point out that the OMSA disc boots CentOS....
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