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Evading the Microsoft tax
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| Iâm running Archlinux on it, installed with
| the Chakra live distribution (the latest
| Archlinux live USB stick image isnât recent
| enough for a confortable installation on this
| hardware), but I removed the stable (and
| awesome) KDEmod packages to replace them with
| packages from a KDE SC 4.4 snapshot repo.
| Hardware support under GNU/Linux is great,
| aside from the wired ethernet adapter which
| required some tweaking but it works now.
| Battery life is incredible. I had no trouble
| getting used to the keyboard, which is quite
| good, but the touchpad buttons are hard and
| they make middle-clicking difficult. The Atom
| N280 based system feels reasonably fast.
|
| I want to take this chance to thank Frank
| Karlitschek for his hosting of the OCS
| contest and his help and cooperation.
|
| Thumbs down Dell for actively refusing to do
| business like any decent internet store in
| the EU, and thumbs up Amazon.co.uk for
| cooperating with me in exercising the rights
| that the Windows EULA grants me.
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http://teom.wordpress.com/2009/12/06/evading-the-microsoft-tax/
Recent:
Getting A Refund for Unwanted Microsoft Windows
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| I strongly encourage people to do this.
| Sometimes it will work, and you will get some
| money back, but often it won't, and you will
| either be ignored, or you will be told, as I
| have been, that if you don't accept the license
| agreement, your only option is to return the
| entire computer for a refund. But either way,
| it makes some noise and if enough people do it,
| perhaps some OEMs will start to pay more
| attention.
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http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10014228o-2000498448b,00.htm
Windows license refund donated to Mint
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| I was recently contacted by a person called
| Graeme Cobbett. In his email he told me he got
| his Windows license refunded and donated that
| money to Linux Mint. Of course, as you can
| imagine, he felt pretty happy about it and he
| wanted to let people know how he did it.
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http://www.linuxmint.com/blog/?p=1073
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