4 Panel comic meme.
1: a snall green character says "I'm the new Windows 11 preconfigured on this device!"
2: a muscular dude called "parted" laughs at him
3: an equally muscular dude called "fdisk" laughs at Windows as well
4: they beat up Windows
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[–] 161 points 1 year ago (13 children)

I hope more hardware manufactures offer to ship without a windows license. It is cheaper for everyone and people have less hassle installing an OS of their choice on the device.

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  • [–] 79 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I'm pretty sure that Microsoft pays OEMs for having Windows pre installed just like any other adware.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That would be wasting their market position.
    If vendors can expect say 10% of people to choose a non-windows option it would suffice for microsoft to offer a 20% discount in return for the vendor not offering such an option.

    10% might actually be a bit low, there are a lot of people willing to install windows themselves and use one of the comically easy unlock methods.

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  • [–] 64 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    If the operating system is FOSS, I'd be willing to pay 50% the cost of a Windows license but to the FOSS maintainers and the upstream distros they rely on. Gotta close the causal loop.

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  • [–] 45 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I saved around 100€ on my laptop by requesting the FreeDOS model, the option still exists

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    That’s super-interesting! Could you share some details?

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Some retailers give the option to have no OS installed and with a Windows key, I bought the device when I started switching to Linux and installed a windows partition without activation key. Eventually, I deleted the windows partition as I didn't use it

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