🎉 VICTORY! Lenovo is finally letting customers buy laptops WITHOUT Windows pre-installed in US & Canada!

Freedom to choose your OS is a fundamental digital right! This means:
💰 Lower costs
🌱 Less e-waste from unused Windows licenses
🚀 More freedom for you
💪 Linux Growth

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✅ Check out user-friendly distros like Ubuntu, Fedora, or Linux Mint
✅ Verify hardware compatibility
✅ Consider dual-booting as a transition
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This is excellent news.

How many people have been forced to buy a copy of Windows because it was installed on a machine by default, but then wiped it before first boot?

@techlore I wish Mexico is next in the list

@techlore I'm shocked how much it changes the price. I've long been under the impression that big OEMs are able to negotiate massive price breaks from Microsoft, but that discount slightly exceeds the US$139 outright retail purchase price of Windows 11 Home (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/d/windows-11-home/dg7gmgf0krt0).

The number I had in my head was $60, which I think was the price difference Dell offered when they tried to sell Linux machines to consumers in the Windows Vista era.

@techlore Ah, frustratingly, the Canadian discount on a T14s Gen 6 is only CA$104, much less than the CA$189 retail price of Windows 11 Home. Typical.
@techlore How does an unused windows license cause e-waste?
@techlore well GNU/Linux is one of the most OS around if not the most used one. But the big issue is at enterprise level.
It’s difficult to move sometimes from very windows “language” and services oriented to non windows stuff.
An even migrated to all Linux without any issue or very quick recovery from incidents sometimes people just migrate to windows … “because we are more familiar” etc.
It’s a war that I don’t play anymore. Guess it’s better living with issues and on the edge…😡
@techlore I picked up a really nice Yoga 2 years ago. It runs Fedora perfectly!
@techlore but recommends Windows 11 lol