Ask HN: Why the $200 Overhead on Dell XPS Laptops with Linux?

  • Posted 2 years ago by MikeBVaughn
  • 74 points
I'm not complaining, I'm just genuinely curious. When speccing out an XPS 13 Developer Edition, switching the OS from Windows to Linux bumps the price up by $200. Is it subsidizing whatever work had to go into validating that the OS works as expected on that model?

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