There are quite a few low end laptops available in India without any pre-installed OS. Most people who buy these end up using some pirated copy of windows which

There are quite a few low end laptops available in India without any pre-installed OS. Most people who buy these end up using some pirated copy of windows which is either left unpatched and vulnerable or it comes with some form of malware already installed. It hasn't been great for security or privacy sadly. No one I know uses linux on them or forks out any money for a Windows license which they deem to be too costly.