[03:33] <lotuspsychje> good morning
[22:12] <Metamorphosis> I find it strange that Lenovo is shipping most of its cheaper laptops in Middle East with FreeDOS as default OS. Why don't they install Linux as default? FreeDos is basically DOS.
[22:13] <daftykins> guess which is easier to test
[22:13] <Metamorphosis> I mean, you cant really test many stuff on DOS
[22:14] <daftykins> exactly, much lower feature set
[22:16] <Metamorphosis> daftykins so why is FreeDos so popular with large OEMs? HP, Lenovo, Dell all use it.
[22:17] <daftykins> must be something license related, it's of no value to my day to day to discover why
[23:12] <rfm> Metamorphosis, I found a discussion on quora about this.  Best guess there is that if they pre-installed Linux their customers would expect them to support it; by making the customers install the OS themselves they make it clear that they've on their own...
[23:13] <rfm> https://www.quora.com/Why-do-they-sell-some-new-notebooks-with-FreeDOS-Is-it-really-usable-on-modern-computers-32-and-64-bit-USB-SD-WiFi-etc
[23:15] <oerheks> .. to update the bios.