I am surprised that Toshiba say they needed to re-install Windows, not good service at all. Were not Toshiba one of the manufacturers who offered Linux as an alternative to the ghastly Windows Vista in order to encourage sales. Some people want Windows but no-one wanted Vista.
I have run Opensuse on my Toshiba Equiuum A100 for a year now without any problem.
--- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com, "grantrocket2" <mars_rover@...> wrote:
>
> > You will find Linux users tend to be protective because the only way it is
> > spread is by word of mouth. We may seem thin skinned, but we are constantly
> > barraged with FUD from the big boys at Microsoft and Apple. Windows users
> > tend to not be as passionate in the first place as Apple users and certainly
> > not as much as Linux and they do not get FUD campaigns aimed at them. That
> > can make anyone defensive.
>
> Yes. Toshiba has given me crap when I sent my laptop in for repair (locked bios, I don't think it was "random" but a timed lock), They somehow got me to say I used linux and wanted to charge me extra for "reinstalling" windows. Needless to say I spoke to the manager and had him look at a page that showed the BIOS was different than windows, or any other OS. *sees Gates yelling at toshiba for not selling a licends to me*.
> FUD campaigns are real.
>
> As far as the graphical interface vs command line.
> The graphical interface drew me close to linux, and got me to switch.
> The terminal taught me the inner workings. It's nice to not be locked out of anything. If you are, well sudo (command) works all the time. :D
>
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