brucethemoose comments on Lenovo now ship with Fedora

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Is this a tariff thing? Like is it suddenly more expensive to license Windows, hence pushing OEMs to offer discount options?

Lenovo is at least partially Chinese.

[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 31 points 2 years ago (4 children)

No, Lenovo has offered Ubuntu and at times other distributions preinstalled, for many years. It’s only on a small number of models.

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[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I don't think they did it at a $200 discount before.

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[–] Trollception@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

There is no discount, you are simply not paying for a windows license.

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[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

But before if you didn't want Windows, I think Lenovo just pocketed the change.

And OEMs don't pay anywhere reat retail for a Windows key.

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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

This. $200 is what raised my eyebrows, Windows should not cost them that much when it’s usually “standard”

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