When you get a laptop that comes with freeDOS?

Link, just in case: http://ebuyer.com/786174-hp-255-g5-...

Yeah, it's a bit long. Sorry.

I haven’t seen FreeDos on anything since Windows 3.1, thought it was lost since windows 95 days.

You might want to double check the actual OS that laptop comes with 😂

@C0D4 I did, apparently it actually comes with freeDOS :).

@LinuxUser0001
Just jumped on freedos’s website apparently it’s still in development 😕

So I hope you have a massive dos game library because that’s about all you could hope to use on that 1TB HDD if it even supports that high as it appears to be FAT32 still.

http://www.freedos.org/

@C0D4 This is where my username becomes reality. ;)

Tomorrow 28/08/17 i will finally recive a laptop that i've bought on Amazon, which has freeDOS as OS, but linux is the way

@IsDev Link or make and model?

Here I've often saw laptops that come with freedos instead of windows. On both online and local stores.

Not sure why, but I guess it's cheaper.

Who the fuck pays for DOS?

It's "Free"DOS for a reason

It has FreeDOS, just because
1. It's free, if they would install Windows (legally), they would need to pay license fees.
2. With FreeDOS, you can unfuck a fucked install of most operating systems, because it's mostly a easy configuration issue.

Of course, it is not meant to be your primary operating system.

@LinuxUser0001 Asus P2530UA-XO0119D, nothing special, but i have also a desktop, so i don't need a powerful laptop

OMFG.
If you buy a laptop these days, almost all of them come with windows preinstalled. The OEM version. you actually pay for windows when you buy a new laptop. In fact, OEM bundles is the way MS makes most of thier money....
In case you plan to use something else, like Linux, you might want to buy a cheaper laptop, that has a Free os like freedos, and then install linux by yourself.

@setrofex well if it's called free DOS, the assumption is there is a paid DOS too, otherwise you may as well just call it DOS.

@Gatgeagent If it's about license costs, why not preinstall Ubuntu or something?

@bittersweet Because if they sold ubuntu preinstalled they would have to support it. Some companies do it and make a selling point out of it but for others it is easier to install freedos and attach a note that some hardware parts are not supported due to os limitations (my Acer did that IIRC).

@RTRMS it's not an assumption but it was a paid version and it is called Ms-DOS

@setrofex you pay Ms DOS? I know you paid for windows, but never knew you could buy Ms DOS.

@RTRMS At first when it appeared you had to buy it, but now there is freedos and yeah, the name says it all