Out of windows and linux, it'd be close to 99%. Linux's desktop OS marketshare is 4% according to a quick google, Windows at ~70%, MacOS at ~26%. Since MacOS isn't an option on these, the choice between Windows and Linux would likely be 96% Windows, 4% Linux.
So sure, I'll admit I got that wrong - not 99%, 96% based on 2025 marketshare.
Everything about devices like these is done without employees manually doing stuff on them.
For someone that wants to install their own OS, it coming with an OS installed by default is 100% irrelevant because you’d be plugging in a bootable drive on first boot up anyway.
When demand is there, which it currently isn’t, has never been, and won’t be in the foreseeable future.
Have a look at Linux’s market share over the last few decades. There’s your answer.
If they could ship a computer with the option upon first boot of Windows, Linux, or no OS without having to pay license costs of Windows that would be fine, but that’s not how it works. 99% of people want Windows. Any laptop shipping with no os would just be sent back a few months later after sitting on the shelves for a few months.
Next headline: “Lenovo discontinues offering Linux laptops due to minuscule sales and almost as many returns”
No, but if there’s no other evidence and the person doing the stabbing claims self defence then most likely no charges will be laid.
Charges are laid based on the prosecutions perceived ability to be able to get a guilty verdict. If they think there is no chance of a guilty verdict or plea deal, there’s really no point in pressing charges as it’s just a waste of everyone’s time and money.
That’s wrong, sorry. More people are more computer literate now than at any point in history since computers are a significant part of almost everyone’s life now.
The “problem” with Linux is that even if it was as easy to use as Windows, which it definitely is not even close, it doesn’t support most of the most frequently used software that people use, from productivity to gaming. It’s making strides in gaming at least, but until valve gets a solution for all the anti-cheat stuff, it will never get off the ground. Fortnite? No Linux. COD? No Linux.
For productivity the alternatives to all the MS software range from “possibly as good as or better” to “definitely noticeably worse”, but the biggest problem is the fact that the interconnectivity between all the apps and other products isn’t there. Microsoft have insanely granular integration across almost all of their products, and people’s workflows often depend on it. Not to mention the thousands of other programs that are Windows only.
Nah, not true at all, especially not in the corporate or business world.
The numbers don’t lie. No matter how many people know about Linux, they just don’t want to use it. It makes almost everything needlessly harder than it needs to be for them.