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200 off is incredible
Aint no way people pay 211$ for that adware, spyware piece of shit operating system. Thats wild.
Some time ago i checked some polish stores to compare W11 vs Linux / no OS prices and i found out that the difference isn't flat and it's actually about ~10% of product price (so the more expensive the notebook is - the higher the price of W11 is)
That's absolutely fucked.
When https://massgrave.dev/ exists it's even worse.
I think this tax on tech illiterate people is getting too high.
Should I start selling USB drives for $5? I don't wanna encourage Windows. But I feel bad for the normies. $211 is insane.
MS literally allows massgrav on GitHub. They have for years. They do not give a fuck.
Paying for windows at this point is a normie tax. And it's gotten too damn high!
When I was getting my PC they tried to upsell me for a 250€ windows license even if I insisted I didn't need one x3
It’s even more wild because a few years ago, buying the OS on its own was half that price.
It's 60€ in my region.
The German store doesn't offer Fedora, but also gives 60 Euro off if you order no OS. I tried X1 Gen 10 and 13.
Wait, I had to do a double take. I thought they were charging $200 extra for Fedora and Ubuntu. They could consider sending some money to those distros for development which would still be cheaper than buying windows.
I hope more OEMs start showing the price like this during configuration. People would probably think A LOT harder about using Windows if they were offered a $200 discount for trying something else...
"By Grabthar's hammer... what a savings"
He fit so much disgust and defeat into the delivery of that line. Absolute perfection.