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Shopping for a laptop as a Linux user:
Screenshot from the Simpsons where Otto is talking to Marge and Homer standing next to a window in their house with a caption "Oh wow, windows!... I don't think I can afford this place."
Its pretty easy to to replace the hard drive in most laptops with an empty one then install either linux or a stripped down version of windows.
The point is that you have to pay for the preinstalled windows. Obviously I can install whatever I like on the laptop.
I was going to say - my next laptop, Iβm just buying the cheapest SSD option, maxing out the RAM, and then Iβll swap the SSD. Although Iβm probably already behind the times - I imagine m2 is the new standard storage in laptops now.
Yes, you can, just build your own PC
There are new laptops without os preinstalled (freedos actually installed) i bought my hp255g8 Ryzen 5700u laptop few years ago that way
It would be cheaper also
For them. They would just widen the margin and charge you just as much.
That wasn't my experience buying a laptop, but it could be possible
I had 2 (actully much more) options when buying my laptop. Good laptop with windows or a liitle better laptop without windows for 200β¬ less.
It's sad when you figure out why most people are broke.
I would say "install unregistered windows, run MAS," but unfortunately we can't expect that to be common knowledge. And, if it were common knowledge, MAS probably wouldn't exist anymore either.
What's MAS?
Microsoft Activation Script, iirc. It'll "authenticate" a copy of windows or office suite by spoofing the information needed by windows/office to identify itself as legitimate. You should be able to find it by googling "MAS windows" or "massgrave.dev"
I was about to make a joke about how all Linux gaming laptops are Nvidia-based, but it looks like that's finally changing.