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Shipping your PC with "some linux distro" means you have to support that linux distro. Selling it with freedos, you only have to support freedos, and people wh

• mtrower 4y ago
  > Shipping your PC with "some linux distro" means you have to support that linux distro. But they do offer to ship with a Linux distro, even apart from this strange frankensystem option. Did you miss where straight Ubuntu is a pre-install option?
  • throwaway742 4y ago
    According to another commenter some laptops don't have Ubuntu as an option (likely due to some sort of driver issues).
  • quietbritishjim 4y ago
    Yes and they charge for that, so that's consistent with what the parent comment said.
    • krsrhe 4y ago
    • mtrower 4y ago
      Erm...no? Look at the screenshot in the article. There is no charge for Ubuntu in that shot, only for Windows.
      • quietbritishjim 4y ago
        Oops, you're right. I did look at the screenshot before but totally misread it (probably because Ubuntu is just blank in the price column rather than $0, and there's no horizontal lines (thanks Tufte)).
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• gambiting 4y ago
  >>means you have to support that linux distro. But why or how? I just don't see that at all. Dell won't "support" FreeDOS either. It could be just a basic Ubuntu install that's broken as hell, and I don't see why or how Dell would need to support that.