Re: [Fsfe-uk] Quest for a Windows7 refund in the UK - laptop upgraded to GNU+Linux

[mgtdee]

Yes, I was buying a system over the phone; a desktop, but I wanted to 
use the operating system that I already have, not buy a new licence. 
Dell told me they could not sell me a system without an operating system 
on it because they have to run the operating system to test that it 
works. So I said OK sell me a system with Ubuntu on it; use Ubuntu to 
test it. (I bought a laptop from them last year with Ubuntu on it) And 
the salesman said they don't sell laptops with ubuntu on any more. They 
cannot sell a system without Windows7 on it.

So I bought my new computer from another dealer here in the UK who is 
quite content to put my old OS on it provided that I have a valid 
licence for it. (I am replacing one pc with a new one because the MB is 
dying, and I don't see why I should buy another licence. I am going to 
put the graphics card and hard disc from the old machine into the new 
one... and install the OS (WXP) from the old pc too.
Margaret.

On 06/05/2011 15:27, Illtud Daniel wrote:
> On 06/05/11 14:44, Sam Tuke wrote:
> > On Friday 06 May 2011 14:27:33 mgtdee wrote:
> > > Dell tell me they do not do Ubuntu anymore.
> >
> > This page seems to confirm this:
> > http://www1.euro.dell.com/uk/en/home/ubuntu_deals/fs.aspx?refid=ubuntu_deals&s=dhs&cs=ukdhs1 
>
> Lots of stories about last July about Dell stopping selling Ubuntu
> systems via their website, but that you could call and get them
> over the phone. Did you call them Margaret?
>
> I see that dell.fr seems to list ubuntu (and FreeDOS!) as an
> option on most (all?) of their laptops, but when you go through
> to 'Personnaliser' your selection, you get the usual choice of
> Windows 7 (heh, "Système d'exploitation" indeed).