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RE: Comment by Nico57
by leech on Sun 11th Nov 2012 23:22 UTC in reply to "Comment by Nico57"
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Funny thing is, Lenovo (at least at one point in time) sold Linux based laptops (using SuSE Linux). They didn't have any crapware on them.

But let's take a closer look at the few OEMs that have ventured into Linux Land.

A person would think "They're using a free operating system, so the overall purchase price should be less than one that comes with Windows, right? Wrong, the Linux equivalent have actually cost the same if not more, historically.

This is because there weren't any random advertisement laden crap on there. That crap gives money to the OEMs for putting their crap on there. No crap, no discount.

The first x86 based PC that I had access to was my mother's that was a Pentium 75 Packard Bell. Yes, it had crap installed on it (well besides Windows 95) and Packard Bell 'recovery' CDs was a custom Windows disk that would reinstall all that same garbage.

Of course it also had that garbage Soundcard / Modem ISA card... but that's another story entirely.

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