Everything about devices like these is done without employees manually doing stuff on them.
Whirlybird
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For someone that wants to install their own OS, it coming with an OS installed by default is 100% irrelevant because you’d be plugging in a bootable drive on first boot up anyway.
When demand is there, which it currently isn’t, has never been, and won’t be in the foreseeable future.
Have a look at Linux’s market share over the last few decades. There’s your answer.
If they could ship a computer with the option upon first boot of Windows, Linux, or no OS without having to pay license costs of Windows that would be fine, but that’s not how it works. 99% of people want Windows. Any laptop shipping with no os would just be sent back a few months later after sitting on the shelves for a few months.
Next headline: “Lenovo discontinues offering Linux laptops due to minuscule sales and almost as many returns”
Are you going to just keep removing all of my comments that you disagree with and say “bad faith”? Funny that you removed ones where I asked someone if they just want a dictatorship of their preferred party and they literally said “yes” as “bad faith” lol
Out of windows and linux, it'd be close to 99%. Linux's desktop OS marketshare is 4% according to a quick google, Windows at ~70%, MacOS at ~26%. Since MacOS isn't an option on these, the choice between Windows and Linux would likely be 96% Windows, 4% Linux.
So sure, I'll admit I got that wrong - not 99%, 96% based on 2025 marketshare.