Just take advantage of the Windows-environment subsidies. Save yourself a few bucks. Buy the system with the Windows OS. Back up the OS to a USB thumb drive an

Just take advantage of the Windows-environment subsidies. Save yourself a few bucks. Buy the system with the Windows OS. Back up the OS to a USB thumb drive and store it away carefully. You may need that to reinstall Windows if you want to sell the machine off a year or two later. Wipe the hard drive completely by installing a new partition table. Install your own favorite Linux distro. Almost invariably, the Linux distro that could come with that machine, is a distro that you wouldn't normally use.