What's particularly annoying me right now, as I am soon to be in the market for a new laptop, is the unavailability of laptops with either "no windoze preinstalled", or at least an option of a "linux distro pre-installed" (which to be honest I would just clone and reformat and reinstall with my own preferred distro anyway).
However it is served, the bottom line for me is that I am hopping mad about the idea that a portion of my purchase price will consist of $$$ towards an OS that I do not wish to financially contribute to in any way. I guess this is not a new rant for those of us who have decided to go down the non-propietary path, but now that I've had my wee hissy...
How do my fellow nix-users deal with this in the real world?
I hear a bit of buzz every now and then on the nix news blogs that some company is about to release it's new nix-pre-installed PC/lappie but I've not really seen anything spill over to the local NZ market and even if it did come to our fair shores I doubt the pricing would be very competitive anyway.
A PC I can build from the ground up to my own desired specs and install my own OS of choice, but I don't really see that as an option with laptops, and I'm wondering if there might at least be an option of not having pre-installed windoze?
The local LUG peeps tell me there is no current option... I'm hoping one of our community members can prove them wrong...
Comments anyone? Feel free to rant at will
