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this post was submitted on 16 Apr 2025
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I like this picture.
It's the usual upscaling method, but in this case, there is a way to get the price down from the default....
I wish other choices in life were this easy.
Is this a tariff thing? Like is it suddenly more expensive to license Windows, hence pushing OEMs to offer discount options?
Lenovo is at least partially Chinese.
No, Lenovo has offered Ubuntu and at times other distributions preinstalled, for many years. It’s only on a small number of models.
I don't think they did it at a $200 discount before.
There is no discount, you are simply not paying for a windows license.
But before if you didn't want Windows, I think Lenovo just pocketed the change.
And OEMs don't pay anywhere reat retail for a Windows key.
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They always refused to reimburse the cost of Windows licences before this even if it was illegal in the country you lived in. I'm very surprised.
I paid about $100 less to have my workstation shipped with Ubuntu instead of Windows 10 Pro 3 years ago. United States.
This may help them absorb the tarrifs by advertising it at current rates while raising the price by 200 bucks.
The market is shifting...
For at least half a decade I've been seeing computers - both brand-name laptops as well as custom built desktops - sold with FreeDOS as default, and you have to pay extra for Windows.
The most important part is that you wouldn't get a pc with an instant desktop experience that would just let you just boot up and go to Facebook or whatever, so it had little chance of actually harming Microsoft.
This may actually change things!