My guess is they know Linux loyalists or newbs will just say ok and pay the money. The rest of the users get it with windows and load their own. It's just ki

My guess is they know Linux loyalists or newbs will just say ok and pay the money. The rest of the users get it with windows and load their own. It's just kind of a stupidity tax, because they can. I doubt it's because they have to any extra cost to their process.