> The CJEU ruled that it's legal to bundle PCs with software without indicating their prices separately, and that offering consumers no choice but to buy the PC with the software is also legal, "unless such a practice is contrary to the requirements of professional diligence and materially distorts or is likely to materially distort the economic behavior of the average consumer with regard to the product, a matter which is for the national court to determine by taking account of the specific circumstances of the case in the main proceedings."
[1] https://www.pcworld.com/article/3117584/consumers-have-no-ri...
I don’t think they ever went as far as threatening companies for selling Linux systems but it’s well documented that they withdrew discounts from suppliers offering OS/2 with computers.
IBM just included a copy of FreeDOS for every PC before it sold it's business to Lenovo.
This was over a decade ago.
https://psref.lenovo.com/Product/ThinkStation/ThinkStation_P...
http://psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/PDF/datasheet/ThinkStati...
But they don't even include a Windows option with matching graphics cards.
> Windows® 10 Pro for Workstations<br>Ubuntu<br>Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®
I searched for Ubuntu and on the page that comes up, you can see in the description the html isn't quite right, so maybe it's not live just yet?
Not sure if this covers your question, as the OP said "the same computer with Windows and Linux available" but at least you can probably find the equivalent Linux machines here and then compare to the previously found Windows systems.
Customize the one that is currently listed at $579. It has an i3-9100 processor and switching from Windows 10 Pro to Ubuntu will subtract $109.27. But if you then switch the processor to the Xeon E-2246G, then changing from Windows 10 Pro for Workstations to Ubuntu is a price reduction of $264.36!
As an aside, I find it hilarious (and nice) that you can save a couple dollars by specifying no keyboard or mouse. Sometimes, you'll even see the option to have them skip shipping you a power cord for $2 off or something.
On Dell's website, they let you do this to many of their workstation computers and it appears that the cost of Windows is around $200. What's interesting is that when they are clearing out stock and they offer some basic workstation configurations at $500 or so, you can still delete Windows and get that $200 off the price.