Re: windows advice

2018-10-01 Thread Matthew Crews
On 10/1/18 8:46 PM, Jim wrote: > Does this apply to android phones that people root? > Yes, as much as the phone manufacturers don't want to admit it. Though they aren't required to support the non-standard OS you place on it, they cannot void the hardware warranty on the phone.

Re: windows advice

2018-10-01 Thread Jim
Does this apply to android phones that people root? On 10/01/2018 02:06 PM, Matthew Crews wrote: ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Monday, October 1, 2018 12:34 PM, Michael wrote: I don't want to void the wrranty Per the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act, wiping the hard drive of your compute

Re: windows advice

2018-10-01 Thread JD Austin
If you paid for Ubuntu and they sent you windows then send it back. Alternately you could buy an SSD that is the same size or larger, use Clonezilla to make a copy of the existing drive, and then you can safely do whatever you want knowing you can simply put the original drive back in and have a fa

Re: windows advice

2018-10-01 Thread Michael
that's good to know. Thank you for that little tid-bit of information! On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 5:06 PM Matthew Crews wrote: > ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ > On Monday, October 1, 2018 12:34 PM, Michael wrote: > > I don't want to void the wrranty > > > Per the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act, wipi

Re: windows advice

2018-10-01 Thread Matthew Crews
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Monday, October 1, 2018 12:34 PM, Michael wrote: > I don't want to void the wrranty Per the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act, wiping the hard drive of your computer and installing the operating system of your choice does not void your system warranty. To void the

Re: windows advice

2018-10-01 Thread Stephen Partington
My suggestion is to shrink the windows partition down to something minimal and then install ubuntu. you will now have them both side by side. This will give you windows for testing if needed, and allow you to sanity test your hardware if needed. On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 1:02 PM Snyder, Alexander J

Re: windows advice

2018-10-01 Thread Snyder, Alexander J
Yep, no problem. Thanks, Alexander. Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S8+ On Mon, Oct 1, 2018, 12:44 Michael wrote: > thanks for confirming my thoughts on the matter! > > On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 3:42 PM Snyder, Alexander J < > a...@misteralexander.com> wrote: > >> Assuming you paid the same for the w

Re: windows advice

2018-10-01 Thread Michael
thanks for confirming my thoughts on the matter! On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 3:42 PM Snyder, Alexander J wrote: > Assuming you paid the same for the windows box as you did for the Linux > one ... dual boot it, or load Ubuntu into a VM. > > Although since you're only after an app that has a windows bi

Re: windows advice

2018-10-01 Thread Snyder, Alexander J
Assuming you paid the same for the windows box as you did for the Linux one ... dual boot it, or load Ubuntu into a VM. Although since you're only after an app that has a windows binary as well, then I'd just stick with the Windows box ... unless you gain something in Linux for this app? Thanks,

Re: windows advice

2018-10-01 Thread Michael
I don't want to void the wrranty On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 3:33 PM Snyder, Alexander J wrote: > Keep which ever one you paid less for. Format it and put Ubuntu on it. > > Thanks, > Alexander. > > Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S8+ > > On Mon, Oct 1, 2018, 12:26 Michael wrote: > >> I ordered an Ubunt

Re: windows advice

2018-10-01 Thread Snyder, Alexander J
Keep which ever one you paid less for. Format it and put Ubuntu on it. Thanks, Alexander. Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S8+ On Mon, Oct 1, 2018, 12:26 Michael wrote: > I ordered an Ubuntu box from dell. they sent me a windows box instead. I > do not have a windows box and I probably should have

windows advice

2018-10-01 Thread Michael
I ordered an Ubuntu box from dell. they sent me a windows box instead. I do not have a windows box and I probably should have one. I just need it for darktable of which there is a windows version. Do you think I should send it back? I'm thinking i should keep it. -- :-)~MIKE~(-: -