What are you confused by?

Lol

This is the result of Microsoft being so cozy with hardware vendors.

You’re the one that made the claim that they’re the “only mainstream brand that cares about Linux”. It’s up to you to prove it.

You sure about that?. Where does this myth come from that Lenovo cares about Linux users?

“clean install” is Windows-user logic. Doesn’t apply to Linux.

I bet there exist some Linux installs out there with a different shell than ‘bash’,

100%. Alpine is one such distro.

It’s not reasonable in any language

Better to just buy a System 76 or Framework.

But why do we want more proprietary software running on Linux? Wouldn’t we be recreating the same situation that Windows has?

Edit: Why downvote me instead of replying with a reason why I’m “wrong” or discussing further? Is Lemmy turning into Reddit already?

I’ve never understood how this is good for Linux. Why is having more users so important?

Stop using the Steven Crowder meme already. The guy is total trash.

This is a prime example of why we should be supporting manufacturers that ship open source firmware like coreboot and not the proprietary junk Lenovo ships.

Strawberry, qBittorrent, neovim

Cantata

Sadly it looks like it’s no longer maintained

https://github.com/CDrummond/cantata

You can “click” in GRUB?

Not true. 11 very much still forces you to use an MS account.

I believe WINE uses a timed release model, meaning this isn’t necessarily a ‘major’ release.