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On 04/11/14 17:59, Gareth France wrote: > I understand exactly what you mean and to be honest even if I got > a Ubuntu preinstall on a machine I would most likely swap hard > drives and use this install I'm using now or wipe and reinstall to > my standard. I'm not expecting to find some sort of Linux holy > grail out there I just resent the idea that some statistician > somewhere has me marked down as a willing Windows user. > Don't you have to register / activate windows, by not doing so this sends out part of a message. I was chatting to one of the sales people in Pc world torquay ages ago, he knows about Linux and was more of a mac guy, so we do have allies, I don't think he likes MS / Windows either. end of the day it is a SALE and if that sale comes only after having Windows REMOVED and price reduced accordingly then its a sale on their books. What we need to know before that is that the hardware works with Linux so having a live cd to hand ti test, id any internal components and then cross reference those to databases of Linux friendly hardware. I am also sure independent shops would help, for the reason above, Paul -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAlRaDRQACgkQaggq1k2FJq0J3QCePsUzQp//rqZamtbKdZ6cWUax RkIAnibUt8izWTO19Yo5O9/g4ZVez3vF =lnRx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
