Bruh this isn't a #competition anymore, but a public execution of how #enshittified devices get just with #Windows instead of #Linux on.

• And that's the #OEM #Preinstall of #Windows11 vs. #SteamOS, so not even like some custom 1337hax0r gentoo config optimized to maximize battery life!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajVvu9M2Y-I&t=507

#enshittification #bloatware #govware #spyware #WastefulComputing

@knoppix95 this is nothing new.

#Lenovo almost always offered around €125 discount for "no operating system" and €100 for #UbuntuLTS over #Windows - if they offer any of those options at all…

• Not to mention Lenovo, #Dell & #hp actually get paid $25 by #Microsoft for any #Windows #preinstall since at least 2012 in return for not shipping #Linux on said devices!

What is a problem is that Lenovo doesn't actually #Support even "#Ubuntu #certified" devices like the #P15v and it's #Intel #XMM7360-based #WWAN chip, the #Fibocom #850GL, at all, and they refuse to provide #drivers for it!

@simonzerafa I mean obviously #reuse / #UseLonger is better and if your options are "corporate surplus" or nothing then I'd never judge.

To me it's just that #ThinkPad as a brand has really died as every single Device is a #downgrade in #repairability & #upgradeability compared to my #X230Tablet:

• They have #SolderedDownRAM even on P-Series #Workstation machines, not just cheap cheap #Lenovo consoomer devices.

• Batteries ain't toolfree-swappable anymore!

• #WWAN modules are worse (i.e. #Fibocom #850GL aka. #Intel #XMM7360)

• #Linux support gets worse and neither Lenovo nor @ubuntu feel responsible on a "#Ubuntu-certified Workstation" (i.e. #P15v)

• Less & Worse #Docking options.

• Most machines don't offer Linux or to eveb to opt-out of #Govware noone should pay their overcharged premium for (in fact #Microsoft pays Lenovo $25 for every #Windows #preinstall so they don't ship Linux, they don't even pay the $10 for an #OEM-#UEFI-Key, much less the $135+ of a #SystemBuilder version they charge for!)

• ...

Personally, I wish I had €.€€€.€€€ so I could just develop the #NUCbook and be done with the #Enshittification of #Laptops / #Notebooks!

@katnjiapus it's because of what I call "#RedBlueIndex" (named after the holding company owning the two biggest electronics tetailers in #Germany, #Saturn & #MediaMarkt):

• Only what people see ib stores exists to them!

Thus they see #Apple devices that are more expensive than ever before and are less compatible than anything since the switch from #PowerPC to #ix86 and all the garbage prebuilds with #WinShit on them because retailers get paid to not offer #Linux and the big OEMs get paid $25 for every #preinstall if #Windows10 & #Windows11...

• I wish I was wrong, but #Microsoft paying #Toshiba / #Dynabook, #hp, #Dell, #Lenovo and #Fujitsu is the result if them threatening to ship @ubuntu / #UbuntuLTS instead of #Windows7 / #Windows8 on #Workstation and low-end office machines if they don't get discounts...

Same with #refurbishers that pay less than €10 per key in return for not shipping Linux...

That's why you don't see Linux machines in stores.

And I want @[email protected] / @Bundesregierung & @EU_Commission to actually investigate that sooner than later...

@kura Yeah, #Microsoft enshittified #Windows continously beginning with #WindowsVista.

And in fact I think that if people had to pay for that #Govware and weren't forced to pay a #MicrosoftTax aka. #OEM's margins for a #Preinstall they would not even think about using #Linux instead.

I'd rather help people and migrate their files for a small fee once than exploit #TechIlliterates that bought a dysfunctional crapware on a semiannual basis because Windows constantly breaks shite!