You can buy a mac, you can buy a pc. Why can't you buy from a store a computer that has Linux pre-installed ?
You can buy a mac, you can buy a pc. Why can't you buy from a store a computer that has Linux pre-installed ?
Joseph Peterson
Jace Carter
who cares linux
Dominic Powell
macbooks come with OSX by default because fapple produces both hardware and software and microdork has contracts with hardware manufacturers
Joshua Torres
linux sucks
Matthew James
Buy you can
ubuntushop.be
Jordan Price
You can. But just doing a fresh install could be better, manufacturers like to inject botnet into things
Matthew Jackson
You can in Europe
Jaxson Howard
Because normies love familiarity, do you not recall that many returned or sold on the Xandros Eee 701 netbooks upon their release because they didn't have Windows?
Brandon Gutierrez
You can if you look for it. You'll have to order online since most tech illiterates will get pissed off because they assume PCs always come with windows.
I usually go with system76. Some people have hot opinions about them, but I've had nothing but good experiences with them.
Blake Watson
Because demand
Jack Lee
XPS 13
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Christopher Howard
PC IS Linux computer, you writing about WC: windows computer.
Charles Rivera
Protip: a mac is a PC.
David Carter
system 76
also >mac >pc
Robert Miller
Landon Evans
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Juan Hill
Linux is completely free and open-source which means if machines came with a Linux distro pre-installed, it would probably come with added bloat and spyware courtesy of the manufacturers, much like what already happens to Android devices. Therefore it would be in your better interest to wipe the drive and install your Linux distro of choice from the upstream website. So nothing changes.
Henry Cooper
>buy laptop without OS installed
>save few $$$
>install GNU/Linux distro on it
>no manufacturer's botnet
Lucas Evans
>It's OK to use the abbreviation “PC” to refer to a certain kind of computer hardware, but please don't use it with the implication that the computer is running Microsoft Windows. If you install GNU/Linux on the same computer, it is still a PC.
>The term “WC” has been suggested for a computer running Windows.
WC means toilet in German.
Camden Baker
If I remember correctly, HP and Dell ship some models with Linux
Aaron Thomas
Same in most Eastern European countries. I think it's the abbreviation of Water Closet, maybe?
Caleb Campbell
Linux laptops are actually more expensive.
Kevin Bailey
Same in UK it is short for water closet here for certain
Ethan Turner
Because the manufacturer has to provide support for it.
Also finding someone to work for them or training someone that cares about Linux would be not worth it.