On: The weird Hewlett Packard FreeDOS option

[mtrower]

> Shipping your PC with "some linux distro" means you have to support that linux distro.

But they do offer to ship with a Linux distro, even apart from this strange frankensystem option. Did you miss where straight Ubuntu is a pre-install option?

[throwaway742 → mtrower]

According to another commenter some laptops don't have Ubuntu as an option (likely due to some sort of driver issues).

[quietbritishjim → mtrower]

Yes and they charge for that, so that's consistent with what the parent comment said.

[mtrower → quietbritishjim]

Erm...no? Look at the screenshot in the article. There is no charge for Ubuntu in that shot, only for Windows.

[quietbritishjim → mtrower]

Oops, you're right. I did look at the screenshot before but totally misread it (probably because Ubuntu is just blank in the price column rather than $0, and there's no horizontal lines (thanks Tufte)).