Lenovo's Warranty Policy Is Disappointing

This will be a short post. So let's cut to the chase. A few weeks ago my Lenovo G50-80 started having issues with the "y" key. I went to the store, and they contacted Lenovo's customer care department. The representative said that he wouldn't be able to help because I had installed Ubuntu on my system. That was just hilarious. How can a piece of software effect a hardware issue? I bought the laptop because it wasn't pre-installed with Windows. I bought it to exercise my software freedom. If Lenovo is not going allow me do that, then they should just stop selling these models.

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Why I Started Blogging

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