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by cooldeal 5272 days ago
>When I buy laptop, I am buying a computer. Full stop. If the vendor wants to bundle an OS, great, but I expect to be able to change it.

Maybe it's time to change your expectations? Why is Microsoft liable for your expectations? Why not only buy laptops that meet your expectations?

>It's far more offensive not to be able to run Linux on a mainstream laptop than not to be able to run Windows on an iPad.

ARM laptops are nowhere close to mainstream. They cannot run any Win32 applications. MS is starting from zero here.

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"MS is starting from zero here."

No. Microsoft is starting at one hundred eight billion.