I was curious, so I checked the laptop offers in our local shop aggregator (arukereso.hu)
Operating system Number
Windows 10 Home 8
Windows 11 Home 677
Windows 10 Pro 23
Windows 11 Pro 1661
Windows 11 S 21
Linux 74
macOS 141
Chrome OS 5
FreeDOS 506
Without OS 679
No one who doesn’t know anything about installing windows is gonna buy a laptop without os or with freedos, so you can deduct those too.
The real choice for probably 99% of consumers is between windows and mac.
The point was that end users extremely rarely need to worry about what windows flavour they need. The laptop already comes pre-installed with the correct flavour OS for that laptop.
I agree, if not by mistake the cheaper FreeDOS, buyers will select the windows preinstall I presume. I was checking if all machines come with windows. Clearly not.
With what frequency they choose what offering, is a harder question to answer and would give a different distribution. MacOS would be higher, and without os and FreeDOS close to zero.
All machines come with windows pre-installed, no one ever needs to worry about different flavours unless you work in IT and manage windows devices.
I haven’t had to worry about which windows to get since windows 98.
Fyi, I’m on Linux mint now.
I was curious, so I checked the laptop offers in our local shop aggregator (arukereso.hu)
2390 / 3795 = 62% windows
No one who doesn’t know anything about installing windows is gonna buy a laptop without os or with freedos, so you can deduct those too.
The real choice for probably 99% of consumers is between windows and mac.
The point was that end users extremely rarely need to worry about what windows flavour they need. The laptop already comes pre-installed with the correct flavour OS for that laptop.
I agree, if not by mistake the cheaper FreeDOS, buyers will select the windows preinstall I presume. I was checking if all machines come with windows. Clearly not.
With what frequency they choose what offering, is a harder question to answer and would give a different distribution. MacOS would be higher, and without os and FreeDOS close to zero.
Isn’t that what I’m saying? Windows isn’t prevalent because there is one edition of it, but because it’s the default.
Apparently this is downvote worthy information?