Best Buy has never been a favorite company among Linux fans, and that feeling was not improved by the Microsoft ExpertZone training scandal that erupted last September. A whole new crop of reasons to hurl insults at the chain came up in recent weeks, however, following news of one blogger’s experience. “My four month-old netbook’s touchpad and power adapter all stopped working,” began the anonymous reader. “I took the machine into Best Buy for service … [and] the manager of the Geek Squad informed me that installing Ubuntu Linux on my machine voided my warranty.”
