[HLUG] Second user laptops

[Julian Robbins]

Hello Ann

Good luck with your Arch install. Even though I've been using Linux since
1999 installing Arch took some doing for me. That said this is partly the
point a distro that you config to our exact requirements and you do learn
(or relearn) quite a bit.

Your right about the ms tax though . thanks for sharing with the lug

Julian
On 6 Nov 2015 13:03, "Ann" <catether at talktalk.net> wrote:

> Thanks for that, £20 is a good saving for me when the machine may be
> around £140 ...  it is a matter of principle that I do not want ms, I am
> plucking up the courage to install pure Arch, and yes Manjaro is still my
> preferred system.
>
> On 05/11/15 20:20, david winterton wrote:
>
>> Dear Ann,
>> not having windows on a refurbished laptop saves very little as mircosoft
>> pretty well gives their system away and charges for apps like Office.
>> On a very unscientific test of one computer ( LENOVO Thinkpad T410 Core i5
>> 2.4Ghz 8GB RAM ) Eflex ( who I bought mine off ) were £20 cheaper.
>> And if you load your own disc you can use your prefered system, ( manjaro?
>> )  Eflex ( and this may be normal ) send laptops already to read from the
>> dvd drive first.
>>
>> P.s. chakra is moving to kde plasma 5 and it is not a simple upgrade, so
>> you may not get any more nonsense off me for a day or two, or as the kids
>> used to say ' Daddy's playing with the computer it won't work anymore!!!'
>>
>> On 4 November 2015 at 13:06, Ann <catether at talktalk.net> wrote:
>>
>> I always buy second user laptops and my preferred supplier is
>>> http://www.valucomputers.co.uk
>>> I asked if they would supply machines without windows and they said yes
>>> they would, and also on certain models advertised with windows 7 they may
>>> also be able to reduce the price a little. This is good to know.
>>> regards Ann
>>>
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