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I've never seen that in the US. All the laptops I've ever seen for sale in person (rather than online) either came with some version of Windows or Mac OS. So we
by tikhonj 14y ago
I've never seen that in the US. All the laptops I've ever seen for sale in person (rather than online) either came with some version of Windows or Mac OS. So we not only lack Linux here, we lack anything outside of Apple and Microsoft.
FreeDos seems rather specialized and would not suit a casual consumer at all. Perhaps those laptops just have a different target market? I really can't imagine anybody but a hobbyist actually wanting to buy that. Also, perhaps people just buy those laptops to install Windows in some questionably legal way?
- dagw 14y agoThe FreeDos thing has something to do with some obscure rules about having to sell computers with an OS. No is expected to actually use FreeDos, and in fact the reason they use FreeDos rather than, say, Ubuntu, is to make sure no one does run it, and thus not having to offer support.