Are they successful? There used to be this practice when a PC manufacturer would put a free or cheap Linux or eve DOS on its PCs to reduce its price by a 50-10

Are they successful? There used to be this practice when a PC manufacturer would put a free or cheap Linux or eve DOS on its PCs to reduce its price by a 50-100$. Everybody just erased whatever was on HDD and installed a pirated Windows. But these days, with WGA and OEM Windows being really cheap, I guess it's unfeasible.