What not to buy on Black Friday: Windows 8 PCs & laptops | Linux Today

What not to buy on Black Friday: Windows 8 PCs & laptops

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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Nov 19, 2012

The good news is that all your local retailers are going to have great deals on PCs and notebooks on Black Friday. The bad news is that almost every last one of them will be running Windows 8–and installing Linux on them is an incredible pain in the rump.

SJV

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

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