I bought a new notebook and it had windows 8 on it
if you buy it it will piss you off big time
microshit wants to totally control you.

I was so pissed I thought of suing Fry's.

Fortunately I will take the drive out and replace
it with a blank drive and install Mint.

Paul Lamar


Your plan may not work. Look up Uefi to see why. One site is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface


There many web site with more info. You may be able to find a work
around. If you can't I suggest
buying a older computer which has win xp or 7 on it. These ones allow
other operating systems to be installed. IF you do not want win xp or 7
just install a version of linux over the win version and wipe it off. If
you want to keep win on the computer you have 2 options.

1. the ubuntu versions and mint versions installer allow side by side
installations. This assumes enough disk space to partition for both.  20
to 30 gigs for windows at a minimum and 20 gigs for linux. I have been
making 3 linux partitions, 10 gig swap(could beting smaller), 10 gig /
partition and a 20gig or larger /home partition. This allows me to
upgrade the operating system and formatting the / partition and not
formatting the /home partition. Your data on the /home partition will be
saved, however the links to installed programs will be lost but can be
reestablished by reloading the programs via package manager.

2. If you have a computer which has a processor set up for
virtualization ( I think core2 dual on up through i3,i5,i7 have the
hardware). Install virtualbox and install win in the virtualbox. You
will notice very little decrease in speed. There are a few tricks
necessary to get the Usb woirking in virtualbox. IF you go this way,
contact me and I will walk you through it. Or load Teamviewer- it is
free both in linux and win and i can take over your computer remotely
and set it up.

I have a i7 desktop at home with such a setup and both linux mint and
win are very fast. With win you still face the virus/malware problem and
need to load software for this problem.
This is just a quick over view of the problem. Much more detail is
available via google search.

chris smale


I have done it so far on an Asus K53 and  a Lenova G580 note book computers.
It is tricky but I can't reveal my secrets as I am starting a
biz to install mint in place of Windows 8. $75 cash :)

Anybody want to buy a 320 Gig 2.5" HD with Windows 8 on it ?

Paul Lamar

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