If you buy a notebook from Huawei, you will probably have to make do without Windows as a operating system in the future.
The United States has already led to the Chinese company Huawei in 2019 due to a lack of Google licenses for smartphones on Android.
A new laptop now shows what has been known for a long time: that the company has the same fate for notebooks in terms of Windows as with cell phones in terms of Android.
It's about the Huawei Matebook X Pro in versions 14 and 16. Sea Xataka It is the company's first model in response to the restrictions that is also offered with Linux. The sale takes place, among other things, via the Chinese platform Vmall.
The Harmonyos operating system is based on Linux. Huawei will generally use it for new devices in the future. Due to the restrictions mentioned at the beginning, your own smartphones have been used for a long time.
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Why Huawei has to use Linux
- The United States has only been allowing trade relationships with the Chinese manufacturer Huawei under strict requirements.
- The background is security concerns, also on the basis of a close to the Chinese government.
- As part of this on the
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Sticked and increasingly tightened restrictions are now that Huawei's licenses are not extended further to use Windows in his devices.
Products that have already been published are still likely to be sold. For new products, Huawei will have to rely on an alternative to Windows in the future, more precisely on the in question of harmonyos with Linux-based.
As early as September 2024, this addressed a report by The Register. At the time, Huawei, in the person of Yu Chengdon, clarified that the current Huawei devices with Windows will be the last. Chengdon is the chairman of the Consumer Business Group near Huawei.
According to Huawei, the successor to Harmonyos in the form of Harmonyos Next should work completely independently of Android and Linux (via techeblog.com). In China, the operating system is already available on first devices.
Harmonyos ensures restrictions
Basically, Linux notebooks can also be used very well for many purposes. However, there are quite relevant restrictions, primarily through incompatible software.
The gaming area is also affected, although the situation has clearly improved in recent years and more and more games are also running under Linux.
Experience on a Windows notebook is still very different from that on a device with Harmonyos, despite all the efforts of Huawei to further promote their own development.
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