We all know the joy of acquiring a new laptop and the excitement of exploring its features and functionalities. However, the vast majority of laptops are only sold with a specific proprietary operating system: Microsoft Windows. The vendors do not remove the Windows license, and you must pay the entire price, even if you do not want to use this system.
This is unfair and we want to change it! Consumers should be able to buy laptops without any specific operating system, and should not have to pay the license price if they don’t want to.
the major OEMs build far more systems and pay less for what goes inside. they also pay less for windows licenses and can also make money by preloading shit (they basically get paid to put windows on).
That makes sense. Probably should have occurred to me if I took a minute to think about it. In the final analysis, I guess it’s worth a few extra bucks to get something that isn’t entangled in the Microsoft ecosystem.