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justdude@mastodon.nl

elbeetoots@mastodon.nl

@sslaia The video preview is... AI-generated. Also, Bill Gates is long gone as CEO so he probably doesn't give a flying copulation about Lenovo (and Dell!) giving the option of installing Linux instead of Windows.

He has other problems too, because he's mentioned in the Epstein Files rather often.

dukeduke@mastodon.social

@sslaia Excellent! I've been running Zorin on my primary Lenovo laptop for several years, and have never had an issue!

humanhorseshoes@mastodon.world

@justdude @sslaia I had Windows 11 on an old computer and it was constantly breaking so I didn’t even back it up and deleted it and MacOS and after a lot of messing about have a lovely Fedora 43 system

fizzydaisies@mas.to

@Netraven @sslaia That clickbait video title is ridiculous. Lenovo has been selling computers with Ubuntu preinstalled for several years.

gustavo_rezende@mastodon.social

@sslaia

"A computer is like air conditioning - it becomes useless when you open Windows."

zazzoo@mstdn.ca

@sslaia Good on them. No more paying the Microsoft tax - where you have to pay for a Windows license even though the first thing you'll do when you get home is format the hard drive.

pouakai@mastodon.social

@gustavo_rezende
It's a nice statement lol

spiny@mastodon.social

@sslaia shitty clickbait. why would bill gates give a fuck what Lenovo do?

drdusty@mastodon.social

@sslaia ... Long overdue. Kudos to Lenovo and others supporting Open Source alternatives.

lunr@mastodon.social

@FizzyDaisies @Netraven @sslaia Right?! I have two Thinkpad X1 Carbon gen 8’s in my office right now that could have been ordered with Fedora preinstalled back in 2020.

solitha@mastodon.social

@sslaia Seems to be completely false. I'm looking at the Lenovo site, and you can't even search for any OS except Windows or NVIDIA DGX.

The offerings are full of Copilot+ PCs.

raymondpierrel3@aus.social

@humanhorseshoes @sslaia @justdude
I have a Dell Aspire and it runs Linux Mint (Ubuntu) distro just fine.

crazyeddie@mastodon.social

@sslaia This is really going to upset the people who get mad when you talk about Linux.

Oh well.

sslaia@mastodon.social

Hello all, I haven't been able to find Lenovo's official announcement about this.

Despite Lenovo's devices being very Linux friendly for a long time, this is something different: Lenovo would pre-installed Linux by default, and Windows only by request with additional fees.

So please take this news as unfounded until it's verified.

I'm sorry to have shared this video too early

rraggl@mastodon.nl

@sslaia Meanwhile, (and I might be preaching to the wrong crowd here) there ARE manufacturers who ship Linux first computers NOW and have been doing so for years:
@tuxedocomputers @slimbook @starlabssystems @junocomputers @system76

Are a few that come to mind. What we need are Linux PCs on big box shelves, so yes Lenovo doing that would be great, but until then...

codebuzz@indieweb.social

@sslaia Even if not verified for Lenovo, it is verified for Dell. So expect others to follow.

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