R_Head wrote:Warranty... against what? Anything that goes wrong is your fault anyway according to MS.
I say, blow it off the water... if you can install Linux on that machine. My little girl loves her Mageia 5, that includes the wife and my mum inlaw. Funny that she is 75 and asked me to get rid of Windows and install Linux instead
I purchased an extended warranty, and on top of that, a drop and breakage, etc. Warranty. They weren't cheap, except for the drop and breakage one. Oddly though, the drop and breakage one, the cheaper one, is the one I don't want to lose.
As I said before as well, I did put a lot of money into Windows-only games. I bought paid versions of proggies (mostly so I could have them on other devices too, such as my android phone and tablet without paying extra for them, or that I could have more than one license for so I could give one to my mum in Colorado - talk about a mum you wish would go Linix, but then who really minds doing paid things for their mums when they can? Not me).
There's also a geeky techie curiousness that says "there has got to be a way to stop this" without paying more. Remember, viking and I both have access to under-the-hoodness for Windbloze from Linux. We can do anything to f*ck it up, if we only know what to do. This in turn could help a lot of people. I know a lot who don't want this upgrade.
I'm still thinking about having it boot straight to Steam, but then with the other things I need to use it for (work), I'd have to set up a whole 'nother user to do it. When my work computer comes in, I won't have to worry about that.
No, I want to figure a way to stop the Microsh*t garbage at every turn I can. Obviously, since I did everything viking said earlier in this thread, what's being released on the interwebs to stop the upgrade isn't working for this. I still have the folder for the 10 upgrade (although it's not being downloaded to), and Windows Update in Control Panel, even with auto updates turned off, it just isn't working.
