How to be fully MS-free on a laptop??
Not having heard of the Great Satan's buy-in when it happened, I got an ibook thinking it would save me having to scour odd evil bits of code that might infest obscure corners -- only to have it boot up with IE, big as life.
First question: is that all, or are there other
contaminating and corrupting electronic pollutants?
Second: how do I best get rid of it/them, and be sure
to leave no traces? I've never had any experience with Apples before.
Third: what should I have done? I.e., how do you get
a clean laptop to start with? Are there any? Or do you have to do a lot of bell book & candle work wherever you start??
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Not having heard of the Great Satan's buy-in when it happened, I got an ibook thinking it would save me having to scour odd evil bits of code that might infest obscure corners -- only to have it boot up with IE, big as life.
What is "the Great Satan's buy-in"?
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First question: is that all, or are there other
contaminating and corrupting electronic pollutants?Second: how do I best get rid of it/them, and be sure
to leave no traces? I've never had any experience with Apples before.
Since this is the "linux-laptop" mailing list, I would have thought that wiping the whole disk and installing Linux would have sorted it. ;-)
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Third: what should I have done? I.e., how do you get
a clean laptop to start with? Are there any? Or do you have to do a lot of bell book & candle work wherever you start??
I believe there are laptops sold ready installed with Linux, although I wouldn't know which ones or where to get them.
imc