Please, i never once paid for windows either.
You paid the markup when buying hardware with OEM license though.
Not if I've never bought a prebuilt PC.
Not even a laptop?
Nope. Never bothered with a laptop until work provided me with one.
system76 let's go
Cant say for them, but I've never owned a laptop until about 6 months ago, and thats used enterprise hardware off ebay.
What did you get? I’m interested but not really sure what to look for in that niche
HP zbook 17 G6. Big, thiccc, can take a 2.5 inch drive AND a slim disk drive (but it might be hard to find the front/bezel piece to use one properly), and 2/3 m.2 slots (i think sata might be disabled if i use one?)
No soldered ram BS, and I've got an 8c/16t xeon. I spent about $300. G6 and G5 only difference is the processor IIRC
I did and it was every bit as degrading as you might imagine.
Hey now, most of us didn't imagine that we were funding Bill Gates to go get an STI from Russian children. That adds a layer.
Same... Multiple times.
Eh, whatever floats your boat, I say, no kink shaming
It didn't float my boat.
It's a trap. Once you accept linux, you will become a linux person. At every technical issue your friends and family encounter, you'll say stuff like "have you tried switching to linux?"
It's too late...
"Installing Arch is really easy these days!"
I don't think I have anyone in my family that I hate quite that much.
Maybe if they stopped having issues Linux would fix.
Oh, Windows broke the printer driver? Yeah my Linux laptop still works. Can't turn your PC off? Yeah my Linux boots and shuts down fine still. Oh updates randomly restarting your PC in the middle of processing something? Yeah Linux let's you control updates.
I could go on.
I became more aware of things breaking on Windows after switching at home. Everyday there is some weird bug or just very inconvinient behavior coming from Win, Office or platform-exclusive software. And with everything screwed to the floor and witholding information, you either find a sketchy workaround or wrap yourself around the issue. It's so weird, like I took a red pill. Linux quirks are challenges that I've chosen for myself, and there were several huge problems, but oh well going into windows is not a safe haven either, and that's a paid product and a standard OS for PCs.
GOD can you imagine paying 140 dollars for an ai generated OS with ads? could never be me
Not only free, but private and secure. Won’t even spy on you, and if it tries you can just tell it no and it listens!
Fuck, I love Linux.
Instead of an end user you shall have an ADMIN! NOT BEHOLDEN TO MICROSOFT BUT BEAUTIFUL AND TERRIBLE AS THE DAWN! POWERFUL AS THE SEA! ALL PROGRAMS WILL WORK FOR ME AND DESPAIR!
Gotta love a free product that also does not suck.
I asked her for one desktop environment from her golden head. She gave me a handful.
Free as in freedom AND beer :)
Yeah but... If it's not enough -> you also don't pay with your data ;)
A gif? On lemmy? How queer
They used to not work well as uploads (and/or I just didn't know what I was doing), but since this one seems fine, maybe I'll start posting them more. I don't really have a smooth process for creating gifs on my phone.
Massgrave says it's actually $Free.99
Hint: :q!
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