I think you should check out novatech, who are local and much more
forgiving with what you do or don't install.
Plus, they are much more likely to know which laptops can have Linux
installed without any secureboot fuss. The price is also cheaper if you buy
without an OS installed, so you can just turn it on and load Linux onto a
blank machine.
http://www.novatech.co.uk/
They even have a Linux section in their support forum:
http://forum.novatech.co.uk/forumdisplay.php?53-Linux
On 13 April 2013 20:01, Sean Gibbins <sean@???> 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.
>
> It wouldn't be the end of the world if I had to claim back the Windows
> tax, but last time we enquired about it with Acer (she doesn't want another
> Acer btw) they wanted it shipped back to them (at our expense) so that they
> could remove it. We did the maths and calculated we stood to gain little
> more than a moral victory after paying for fully insured shipping, and
> therefore decided to leave Windows 7 where it was, which was just as well
> as it actually turned out to be useful for a couple of things in the end.
>
> Anyway, I'm rambling now! Does anyone have any experience of such things
> that they would care to share?
>
> Sean
>
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