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Re: Mountain tops? @itzman

Why, oh, why, do people downvote posts like itzman's which do nothing more than state the perfectly obvious truth? If you buy anything not from Apple or a Chromebook, with very few exceptions it ships with Windows and the users have paid for it when they bough the hardware. They get it whether they want it or not. If they want to install a different OS, the have to actively find something else, format the drive, install the OS, install drivers for the hardware (if there are any...) and generally mess with the system. The general public merely wants a computer. They, mostly, don't know how to install new OSes. They don't know about drivers. They don't care. 90+ percent of the world has Windows or Macs. There are lots and lots and lots of people who support Windows systems, and a few who support Apple. And, of course, users want to use computers to DO SOMETHING... and the something they want to do will work with Windows, but might not with Linux. These are facts. I really don't see why people hand out downvotes for simply stating the facts.

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