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I live in Hungary, EU and most of the retail stores sells laptops with FreeDOS. Or you can choose that you want FeeDOS or Windows. But most people goes with FreeDOS obviously as you pay less and you get Windows on your "own way"

Why FreeDOS tho? Good question I never thought about it but I also never seen Linux on retail store laptops

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Because FreeDOS is the easiest and lightest OS to put on, since it doesn't even have a graphical interface. It sounds like they literally put the most basic OS possible on so they can sell it and claim to Microsoft the person won't turn around and pirate Windows immediately.

If they actually wanted them to use an OS that's not Windows, they'd preinstall Linux on it. But that's not the point.

If it's going to be uninstalled anyway, they don't bother to configure a Linux and take care of drivers, etc.

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