A day after it denied ditching pre-installed desktop Linux, PC giant Lenovo has confirmed to Stephen Vaughan-Nichols of Practical Technology that "customers will no longer be able to order Lenovo ThinkPads and ThinkCentres with pre-installed Linux via the lenovo.com website."
No explanation for the decision was given, according to Vaughan-Nichols. Presumably, after years of shouldering the unwanted burden of supporting Microsoft operating systems, the vendor was loathe to increase the burden on its support staff further. It pulled pre-installed Linux systems from its virtual store after less than a year of availability, Vaughan-Nichols observes, adding, "This is a major disappointment to desktop Linux users. ThinkPads have long been popular with Linux users. Indeed, there's long been an excellent site just for ThinkPad Linux users."
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