Whats up guys,
I hope everyones day is going ok because for the past month and a half each day i have been spending hours working for a solution to this problem, With no luck! So the story is i am a long time linux user and a hardcore gamer...i know they don't match that's why for a few years i have been dual booting Linux and Microsoft Windows. Well my gaming PC burnt out near the holidays last year and a family member was so kind to go and purchase me a cheap $250 Toshiba C55-B5302 laptop to use until i can work enough money to build another PC so of course i was thankful and took the offer and went on setting it up i kept the default Window 8.1 on it for a few months until i grew tired of using Windows as my main os and not Linux for computing and Windows for gaming so i decided to install a dual boot of Windows 8.1 and Linux now for some time i have been fascinated by the Arch Linux distro but hadn't had the balls to go through the harsh install and painstaking maul work to change the OS from a command line to a GUI desktop, well seeming as i had nothing to loose i went ahead an got to work just in case i messed up i took the precaution of creating a bootable USB for my Window 8.1 so i could uninstall and reinstall once i felt confident installing Arch alongside Windows obviously i didn't want to damage my 8.1 so i installed and set up Arch got confident and went to go re install Win8.1 and since the laptop is new less that a year old the Win8.1 Product key is in the UEFI Firmware (all keys are now OEM keys) and due to that it was supposed to self activate...but it won't i called the microsoft support line and tried to get help and from the get go there answer was to pay $100 for a new licensing key WTF!!!!!! I ALREADY HAVE ONE IN MY UEFI FIRMWARE!!!!!!! they have tried so hard to deteriorate me from getting my 8.1 that i own reactivated they at one point were leading my on so many wild goose chases they said to "call walmart for help" and after a month and a half of calling searching and getting nothing answers from a bunch of towel heads they now have tried to tell me there's nothing that can be done WTF you can take away my licensing for installing Linux i paid for that shit with the laptop and jeez isnt it illegal to do this kind of crap i feel like this Multi Million dollar company is trying to extort $100 from me how weak is that i gues what i am asking is if there is a way to fix this short of hacking because i shouldn't have to resort to that sorry for the bad grammar/punctuation i'm so pissed i dont even care
I hope everyones day is going ok because for the past month and a half each day i have been spending hours working for a solution to this problem, With no luck! So the story is i am a long time linux user and a hardcore gamer...i know they don't match that's why for a few years i have been dual booting Linux and Microsoft Windows. Well my gaming PC burnt out near the holidays last year and a family member was so kind to go and purchase me a cheap $250 Toshiba C55-B5302 laptop to use until i can work enough money to build another PC so of course i was thankful and took the offer and went on setting it up i kept the default Window 8.1 on it for a few months until i grew tired of using Windows as my main os and not Linux for computing and Windows for gaming so i decided to install a dual boot of Windows 8.1 and Linux now for some time i have been fascinated by the Arch Linux distro but hadn't had the balls to go through the harsh install and painstaking maul work to change the OS from a command line to a GUI desktop, well seeming as i had nothing to loose i went ahead an got to work just in case i messed up i took the precaution of creating a bootable USB for my Window 8.1 so i could uninstall and reinstall once i felt confident installing Arch alongside Windows obviously i didn't want to damage my 8.1 so i installed and set up Arch got confident and went to go re install Win8.1 and since the laptop is new less that a year old the Win8.1 Product key is in the UEFI Firmware (all keys are now OEM keys) and due to that it was supposed to self activate...but it won't i called the microsoft support line and tried to get help and from the get go there answer was to pay $100 for a new licensing key WTF!!!!!! I ALREADY HAVE ONE IN MY UEFI FIRMWARE!!!!!!! they have tried so hard to deteriorate me from getting my 8.1 that i own reactivated they at one point were leading my on so many wild goose chases they said to "call walmart for help" and after a month and a half of calling searching and getting nothing answers from a bunch of towel heads they now have tried to tell me there's nothing that can be done WTF you can take away my licensing for installing Linux i paid for that shit with the laptop and jeez isnt it illegal to do this kind of crap i feel like this Multi Million dollar company is trying to extort $100 from me how weak is that i gues what i am asking is if there is a way to fix this short of hacking because i shouldn't have to resort to that sorry for the bad grammar/punctuation i'm so pissed i dont even care
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