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Broke (cause you have to pay): Win11
Woke: Wine11
cost is one of my least concerns with win11 nowadays
Pirating windows is so easy and it improves privacy there is 0 reason not to.
Thats like saying getting herpes is cheap so you might as well get it
I daily drive a linux distro I 100% agree that windows is much worse than windows. I was saying that pirating windows is better than paying for it. Still doesn't come close to trumping linux though.