[dayglored]

> Say what you want about Microsoft, Apple, etc., freedom of choice is what makes America and much of the western world great. If you don’t want it, you don’t have to use it. Microsoft isn’t going to lose sleep over that.

So true.

Now if we could just get the anti-Apple and anti-Windows and anti-Linux trolls here to take it to heart: "If you don’t want it, you don’t have to use it."

It's so simple.

[rarestia]

I do commiserate with them in the sense that mainstream market providers of PCs are 90%+ Windows distributors. If there weren’t a dozen mainstream versions of Linux, they might get a foothold.

I always like to point out that you are NOT obligated to use Windows installed on a new PC. If you read the EULA, you may request a full refund for the license of any OEM Windows deployment from the vendor. It’s tucked into some paperwork provided with Dell, HP, and Lenovo machines. If you have an old copy of Windows and you want to deploy it to your new machine, you are within your rights to do so and to request a full refund of the license cost of the newer version of Windows.