Lenovo Cuts the Windows Tax and offers Cheaper Laptops with Linux Pre-installed

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• pr06lefs@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Article is AI spew, but verified that linux discount is on lenovo.com:

  minus 59$ for ubuntu

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  • XLE@piefed.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Great callout.

    They’re ripping off the name of a legitimate news/tech site, It’s FOSS, which is not hosted on a Gitlab Pages site!

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• SethranKada@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  While the message is good, the article is AI slop with little to nothing in it that wasn’t said in the title.

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  • 0x0@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I actually stumbled on this news while watching this and searched for a text source.

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Good news. Linux can LLM - too

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• Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  note that this is NOT itsfoss.com but some AI-generated itsfoss.gitlab.io

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• Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The year of the Linux desktop is here. Brought to you by astronomical hardware prices.

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• TachyonTele@piefed.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  My brother is a sd card away from having linux on his laptop if win11 gives him any more shit.

  I give it another month. Maybe two.

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  • 0x0@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Let him test a live iso first.

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    • TachyonTele@piefed.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s going to end up being a full cold turkey install. He just needs a working machine.

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• ThePantser@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Dell tried this like 15 years ago. I bought a netboot sans windows and it came with Ubuntu. Maybe this time it will stick.

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• Xirup@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  So this is real? I remember that someone posted about this some days ago but is looked like a AI generated blog

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  • 0x0@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The news seems real and not just Lenovo, Dell and others are testing the waters too.
    They’re no strangers to linux, Lenovo has had some kind of support for ages.

    But coming with linux pre-installed by default? That’ll be a first.

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• dynamoMaus@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This information seems like a ai-slop.

  m.youtube.com/watch?v=ETordALd1WE

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• state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Lenovo has been offering laptops without Windows for quite some time. I bought one with FreeDOS because I wanted to run Linux over 10 years ago. Really nice that they do that for you now.

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• Oisteink@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s not about licensing costs at least. Cheap laptops with office and other bloat, and windows home is probably under usd10 per laptop.

  But hardware requirements are a huge difference and with the ram shortage…

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  • 0x0@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Costs of having to deal with Micro$lop include licensing, extra TPM hardware, tech support, bloatware, etc.

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8OMjEWOo_M

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    • eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Lol Bill Gates is worrying about what Russian girl he’s going to rape next, he doesn’t give a shit about Microsoft.

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