I think everywhere in Europe you can easily get new PCs without Windows bundled with them, especially in Eastern Europe where a lot of Laptops in the shops only come with Free-DOS by default as consumers would rather save the ~100 Euro Windows license on the machines and sort the Windows situation later at much cheaper price on the gray market.
Laptops sold without Windows preinstalled are still a rare sight.
You're overpaying. Windows is free to use if you can live with the activation watermark, or I paid 2,6 Euros for a PRO license on Ebay. 20 Euros for what Windows is today, is already expensive.
>Laptops sold without Windows preinstalled are still a rare sight.
Go to Romania. About half of the more budget friendly laptops on shelves are sold with Free-DOS.
But in Germany you get sued in the first place for buying "keys with unreasonably low prices" (Lizengo).
https://linustechtips.com/topic/1313408-thousands-of-crimina...
2. Germany can go pound sand, nobody care about that digital dinosaur
2. The people with the letter have to care. However dinosaurs could run, germany is a digital sloth.