Post #3345169
2026-06-18 13:22 UTC
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@non_burglar@lemmy.world 2026-06-18 13:52
On select machines.
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@Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-06-18 13:57
The manufacturer matters for the option to be at all available, but it’s the seller that matters when it comes to how many people go for it if there is one. Non-experts tend to chose from what’s right there in front of them in the store front they’re buying from, not a manufacturer option that they’ll only hear about if they care enough and understand enough to actually go look for it. In my experience most PS sellers don’t put their Linux options right there in front of you side by side with the Windows options and with equal proeminence, and this is as much true for online stores as it is for physical stores. Lenovo offering it as an option is a pre-condition for people to actually get it but non-techies are still not going to get it if sellers don’t make it as visible and available as the Windows option, which personally I almost never see happen outside smaller techie-friendly PC stores.