People don't want to install an operating system. If PCs came with a blank hard disk and a box of Windows media, almost nobody would buy PCs. The year of the Wi

People don't want to install an operating system. If PCs came with a blank hard disk and a box of Windows media, almost nobody would buy PCs. The year of the Windows desktop wasn't until 1990, when Microsoft started pressuring OEMs to preinstall Windows 3.0 alongside DOS; prior to that, Windows was something you installed, so nobody wanted it. If OEMs preinstalled Linux with Cinnamon Desktop or whatever on their PCs and marketed those PCs front and center, put them out on display at Wal-Mart and Best Buy, there would probably be some acceptance among consumers. But that would violate Windows licensing contracts so they don't.