They seem less wedded to Microsoft than others I've seen.

Once I even had to use the Dell restore to factory state because I borked the C: drive partition and maybe another one.īy the way, my first impression of this Dell is it's a pretty good machine, and that I'll be buying Dell more often.

In hindsight the process was fairly straightforward, but at the time there seemed so many alternatives that it took me more than a day of work to complete the installation. This was my first Windows/Linux dual boot installation this decade, my first detailed UEFI boot installation dualboot ever.

Launching Windows from Grub2 isn't something I'd look forward to. This installation had to be a dual boot.Īlthough my Dell has a 'legacy mode', I decided to do the entire boot in UEFI mode. One downside of not buying pre-loaded from a specialty shop is that Windows and its diagnostic utilities must run on the computer in order that your warranty be honored. Did I mention this 12GB RAM computer cost $399.95, including 2 year warranty? Don't try that at System 76 or Penquin Computing. Some might question why I bought a Windows computer at Costco instead of getting a Linux-preloaded computer from a specialty shop. Had that been impossible, I'd have returned it that night. I did two things the day I bought it: I charged the battery, and I made sure it was possible to turn off the monopolistic 'Secure Boot'. Plenty of time to make sure they run Linux. I buy my laptops from Costco because if I don't like them, I have 90 days to return them. SystemRescueCd 10.02 was released.In mid July, 2018, I bought a Windows 10 equipped Dell Inspilaptop from Costco. The kernel supports all important file systems (ext3/ext4, xfs, btrfs, reiserfs, jfs, vfat, ntfs), as well as network filesystems such as Samba and NFS. This rescue system requires no installation as it can be booted from a CD/DVD drive or USB stick, but it can be installed on the hard disk if you wish. It can be used for both Linux and windows computers, and on desktops as well as servers. It comes with a lot of Linux system utilities such as GParted, fsarchiver, filesystem tools and basic tools (editors, midnight commander, network tools).

It aims to provide an easy way to carry out admin tasks on your computer, such as creating and editing the hard disk partitions. SystemRescueCd is a Linux system rescue disk available as a bootable CD-ROM or USB stick for administrating or repairing your system and data after a crash.

Instal the new SystemRescueCd 10.02