On 13/04/13 20:01, Sean Gibbins wrote: > Hi Folks, > > My daughter's 21st is nearly upon us and she has told us that she > would like a new laptop. > > We were idly browsing some in PC World today and it became apparent > that they were all shipping with Windows 8. > > Ellen is a Linux Mint user and would like to continue to use it on her > new laptop, but I have heard that our normal MO, squashing Windows > into a much smaller partition and then installing Mint on the back > end, isn't an option. > > ( snip) > Sean > Hi Mate
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