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Re:Lenovo Shipping Ubuntu Linux on 2019 ThinkPad by yellowapple on Friday June 21, 2019 @06:07PM (#20246660)
> Likewise, North Korea has Red Star since 2008 which is mandatory or risk forced labor.

I wonder how true that really is, given the proliferation of ancient (i.e. pre-XP) versions of Windows in heavy use over there.

Re:Lenovo Shipping Ubuntu Linux on 2019 ThinkPad by TkTech on Friday June 21, 2019 @08:24PM (#20247285)
The government still uses a majority mix of Windows and some OSX for the upper classes. For anyone else it's very much mandatory, and you need to be on a national registry just to legally own a computer, which is also how they ensure you update.