AV>> Have you ever tried asking "please remove this $#it and return AV>> money for it"? Here (in Russia) that's so popular that retailers AV>> offer pre-installation of either Windows or some GNU/Linux systems - AV>> usually AltLinux, Fedora or Ubuntu. JD> Cannot be done. HP, Asus, etc, are the computer you buy in the JD> stores. They will NOT remove the operating system, not will they JD> give you money back. If you want a computer without an OS you JD> need to build it yourself.
Different countrie, different laws... Anyway, I prefer to have a choise.
-- Alexey V. Vissarionov aka Gremlin from Kremlin gremlin.ru!gremlin; +vii-cmiii-ccxxix-lxxix-xlii