Huawei Shipping Cheaper MateBook Laptops With Linux in China

Originally launched in 2018 before being upgraded this year with new hardware, Huawei's 'MateBook' laptops have become adequately popular around the world, but they're still only powered past Windows 10. That, nonetheless, is apparently changing, with the company reportedly starting to ship at to the lowest degree some of its MateBook devices with Linux.

According to Redditor, u/xi_save_earth, the Linux models include MateBook 14 (2019), MateBook X Pro (2019) and MagicBook Pro Ryzen edition, although only base models are apparently available with the Linux selection, which means people choosing to buy more than powerful models will still have to buy theirs' with Windows.

As per the report, the Linux models have been priced 300 yuan (around Rs. 3,000 / $42) cheaper than their Windows counterparts. The devices are identical with one another in terms of their hardware, although the Windows key on the keyboard is replaced with a 'Start' key in the Linux devices.

Interestingly enough, Huawei's distro of pick isn't i of the biggies in the Linux world, similar Ubuntu or Mint, but instead, the company is using a debian-based operating system called 'Deepin' that's developed by Chinese tech firm, Wuhan Deepin Technologies.

Formerly known equally Linux Deeping and HiWeed Linux, Deepin is believed to have been in evolution in its diverse avatars since 2004. It has generally been praised for its aesthetics and usability, but had once courted controversy for using a statistical tracking service in its App Store. The controversial code is since believed to have been removed.

In that location's not a lot of info about whether Huawei wants to launch Linux-powered MateBook devices outside of China, just fifty-fifty if information technology does, it is likely to choose a more well-known distro rather than something that's largely restricted to People's republic of china.