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There has been corps like dell offering Linux distros like 10-15 years ago, it just never was an attractive option compared to windows
But windows is killing itself
This is a gaming laptop though, it's a different market
why they test it with Ubuntu then
They probably heard that "Ubuntu is the windows of Linux distros" and didn't get that that's a derogatory term.
You can run games on any distribution, they're basically all the same...
Although I wouldn't have picked Ubuntu, but anything else would be fine.
Yeah like the example dudeface give, Dell have been offering Linux options since a decade ago in my country. Just have to go to their commerce website instead. Same with Lenovo here.
And both of them offer Ubuntu with the expected discount of a Windows license.
I assume Canonical did a lot of legwork to make big brands like that to adopt Ubuntu. IMO it is still the more well known Linux distribution that seems more suited for the non techy segment of Dell and Lenovo customers.
Yeah, I bought a Dell laptop for that reason. Turns out the spec I wanted wasn't available with Linux preinstalled, so I had to buy the Windows machine and install it myself anyway. At least I never had any real driver issues or anything else like that. Laptop lasted 10+ years running Linux practically the entire time.
Props to any OEM who supports Linux, bigger props to anyone who ships Linux preinstalled, biggest props to those who favor Linux by default and charge extra to install Windows or refuse to do it outright!