Linked by David Adams on Sat 30th Aug 2008 16:20 UTC, submitted by michuk
Compulsory Windows purchasing by way of PC bundles is one of the biggest hurtles to alternative OS adoption. Some people have been able to fight it: "Reading the Slashdot article about Dave Mitchell from Great Britain, who got a 47 pounds refund from Dell for returning his copy of Windows was an inspiration for me to check, if it is possible in Poland, too. This is my success story."
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Asus and (especially) Acer laptops aren't really in the same league as Thinkpads; if I have to buy inferior hardware to get Linux, there's still something wrong...
Sure, there are Thinkpads that ship with Linux...but I haven't noticed them anywhere in PL/they would end up much more expensive/no X-series among them (and I'm in the market for one currently)
PS. And you should also mention that on many laptops sold in PL with "Linux", the OS usually doesn't support all of the hardware (witnessed by me in case of Acer, Benq and Fujitsu-Siemens), often is completelly unuseable (Acer), sometimes not installed (LiveCD thrown into the box - Fujitsu-Siemens, Benq); essentially they have Linux just for show/not to be accused of promoting piracy (most of those machines will end up with pirated Windows)