Lenovo Will Sell Ubuntu Laptops In India

Posted by timothy on Saturday July 11, 2015 @07:35AM from the choice-of-freedom dept.

puddingebola notes the news, as carried by Tom's Hardware, that Lenovo will soon ship laptops preloaded with Ubuntu in India. "The first of these systems will be the Lenovo Thinkpad L450, featuring only one of two CPUs, but the selection may widen over time and expand to other countries ...Overall, switching to Ubuntu reduces the system cost considerably. Currently, the standard L450 system with Windows 8.1 Pro utilizing a Core i3, 4 GB of RAM, and a 500 GB HDD costs 59724 INR ($943.02 USD). An Ubuntu version of the system with the same hardware specs, however, will only cost 48000 INR ($757.91 USD).

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Re:Xubuntu isn't so bad by Tough+Love · 2015-07-11 20:00 · Score: 1, Troll

Uhhh and how many of the average users that will end up buying these laptops will know the archaic terminal commands required to pull this off?
In India? A lot. Minds not as lazy, you see. But you're already off on a tangent. Configuring a decent, easy desktop environment and base system is the responsibility of the vendor. Of course as a user its always nice to know that you can reconfigure it any way you want, because that's just how debian->ubuntu is.

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