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[-] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Preinstall it on cheap laptops.

It's that ~~simple~~ hard.

[-] that_one_guy@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago

This is harder than it first appears. Microsoft actually subsidizes vendors for selling machines with Windows installed. So these cheap laptops would actually be a bit more expensive without the Windows installation.

[-] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's why I crossed out the "simple" 😉

[-] xohshoo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

This was sort of a thing in the brief netbook flowering

It didn’t work

[-] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

But it could do. I bought a mainstream laptop from a European big-box retailer 17 years ago which came without Windows installed and nothing but a Knoppix CD. It all worked great out of the box. It would work greater still today.

The corporate monopoly in OS software is just as outrageous as the one in browser software. It's time for Brussels to step in.

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