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Shopping for a laptop as a Linux user:

Screenshot from the Simpsons where Otto is talking to Marge and Homer standing next to a window in their house with a caption “Oh wow, windows!.. I don’t think I can afford this place.”

  • mightyfoolish@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Microsoft would make more from continued Windows usage (between selling data and products like Office) then that license key sold in volume to the OEM.

  • Tattorack@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I don’t get it. I wouldn’t need to have Linux preinstalled. I could just get… Literally any laptop and then only ever boot up Windows to download my preferred distro, if I don’t already have a USB ready.

    • TimeNaan@lemmy.worldOP
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      9 months ago

      The point is that you have to pay for that windows that you’re going to erase anyways. It’s not free.

      • Tattorack@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        In my experience, unless it’s the professional version of windows, laptops with windows tend to be a little cheaper than blank laptops. Pretty sure Microsoft actually pays manufactures to use Windows.