Quick Rave For Linux Mint

If you know me you know I love Linux more than I do Windows. For those who do not know what Linux is I will explain. Linux is an operating system for a computer just like Windows or Mac OSX. It is what you run everything on top of. Linux Mint is a version of Linux of which there are many.

This rave goes out to the team for Linux Mint. They continually put out such a quality product time after time. I really love not having to worry about the inner workings of my laptop and can focus on enjoying it. I just purchased a new Lenovo and you can read what I did to Windows here. Microsoft will not be getting a rave from me for Windows 8 anytime soon. :)

I think there are many Linux distributions that could earn the same praise but I have been a Mint user for a few years now and have not looked back. Thank you Clement Lefebvre and your whole team for the dedication to perfection and the end users.

Fry's Electronics Gets Rave

We bought one of our sons a laptop for his birthday. It was a Lenovo and we felt like it was a good deal. He loved it of course and it has been trouble free so far. But this is a story of how Fry's Electronics gets my vote for outstanding customer service.

Laptop clipart
from Clker.com

Several days later I was scanning their ads when I noticed the same laptop on sale. Well I had heard they had a policy for buyers who found a better price so I went to work researching it. Sure enough they did. On laptops you had 15 days to claim the difference in an advertised price. I thought cool and was about to go straight there only one problem. I could not find the receipt.

On day 12 after the purchase I decided to go anyway sans receipt. I walked in and waited my turn in the customer service line, mostly for returns, until it was my turn. A pleasant young gal was helping me and I was next in line from a real asshole type who was totally abusing her and everyone else. She could have met me coldly but she did not. She was pleasant as I stated earlier.

I started by saying I could not find my receipt and that I needed it for a rebate. Which I did by the way. She informed me after looking up the transaction and writing down the transaction number and an 800 number, that she could not print the receipt but this number could help me with that. Great I told her.

Now I also noticed the laptop on sale here for less money. Without saying a word or batting an eye she looked up the current price and looked at me asking if I wanted it returned to the card or cash. No fuss no arguing just service. I liked that and Fry's Electronics gets my rave.

Updating the Craigslist Laptop Gets a Rave

I have just ordered a new Seagate 500Gb hard drive for less than $50. Happy Birthday to me next week. It should arrive just in time.

So after this upgrade I will have a total of $159 into the laptop. Rave for the free items on Craigslist and to those who give away perfectly good laptops because they can't fix them. :)


Update: Cloned original while the new one was encased in an external USB enclosure. Used Clonzilla and was running in no time. I left the main partitions as they were and created new ones in the empty space. It is really cool to have the extra space now.