I thought they'd done this for years (on certain Thinkpads anyway)? Still I'd rather install my own than trust Lenovo to install it for me.
this post was submitted on 16 Apr 2025
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That's a funny way of sayin' that a Windows Home license costs $211.00.
I'm pretty sure they've been doing that for a long time. The other more business focused OEMs too.
Indeed but it's rarely available to the general public. They don't mind selling 2000 units to a business with dedicated IT support. They (used to) totally draw the line at providing individual support to individual customers.
In my experience (France), buy it while you can because it pops from time to time & disappears without warning.
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It’s -$140 in my area. Additionally, the 2 other models I picked first didn’t have that option at all.
Fedora is better than Ubuntu?
Generally yes
It depends. In my experience it’s less stable but has newer packages.
Yes
- It has more up to date packages (while being reasonably stable), their implementation of gnome is essentially vanilla so its easier to build off of as a base (unless you like Ubuntus extensions and fonts but tbh you can always add those yourself)
- Their KDE edition (starting from the recently released version 42) is no longer a spin so it should get as much attention as Workstation (Gnome)
- DNF is arguably much better than APT and especially with the new improvements its seen
- Fedora handles snapshots much better (btrfs)
- There are more extensive third party repos on fedora
- They dont shove snaps down your throat
I switched a while go and haven’t regretted it.
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One category "no OS", with also at least 211€ off, would be great. Don't need nothing on my device when I install Arch from scratch anyway. Or nc -lp 42069 > /dev/main/root and cat /dev/sda3 | nc 192.168.178.x -p 42069, recreate /dev/main/swap and reinstall /dev/main/boot. Or just nc -lp 42069 > /dev/nvme0n1 and cat /dev/nvme0n1 | nf 192.168.178.x -p 42069
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I wish other choices in life were this easy.
Wtf I dont have that option when I look at the same laptop on the nz version of the website.
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Oh those price tags make me happy
Interesting. Only Fedora seems to be available in Norway.
I'm still 2 years away from a new work laptop (my current one is doing just fine anyway), but when the time comes, I might go for this. Was thinking about going ThinkPad+Linux anyway.
Now if only Asus did that as wel, then we'd be balling
They will pay you to take it!