Like I’ve definitely bought a normal laptop before and re-partitioned the drive to do dual boot. But I’m really hating on Microsoft and Gates now, and I’d just really like to not give them a cent if possible.
I see some websites listed when I Google “laptops without Windows”, but the selection ain’t great and the selection often doesn’t have great video cards. Has anyone had any luck with this? Thanks.
gaming
laptop
I will forever consider this an oxymoron
steamdeck / steam os
Idk anything about them but this company makes laptops incl ones with good graphics cards that come with Linux https://system76.com/laptops
I thought most laptops can be cleaned and then linuxed.
Ah, good. I just contacted a guy who selled a lot of laptops and I told him “yo could you sell me one totally clean of windows?” and he said “yeah it’ll even be cheaper for you”, and I said “thank you”, and then I drank some iced tea .
Oh I’ll try that then. When I go to normal shops, they’re all like “Ya that’s not really doable”. I can try other ones.
I think the move is to buy a fairly recent laptop used. I picked up a Thinkpad recently with no visible wear in the same year the model was released, for a fairly significant discount. Runs great with Linux and I gave zero bux to Microsoft.
