*$211 CAD
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That's a funny way of sayin' that a Windows Home license costs $211.00.
It’s -$140 in my area. Additionally, the 2 other models I picked first didn’t have that option at all.
Fedora is better than Ubuntu?
Generally yes
I switched a while go and haven’t regretted it.
Yes
- It has more up to date packages (while being reasonably stable), their implementation of gnome is essentially vanilla so its easier to build off of as a base (unless you like Ubuntus extensions and fonts but tbh you can always add those yourself)
- Their KDE edition (starting from the recently released version 42) is no longer a spin so it should get as much attention as Workstation (Gnome)
- DNF is arguably much better than APT and especially with the new improvements its seen
- Fedora handles snapshots much better (btrfs)
- There are more extensive third party repos on fedora
- They dont shove snaps down your throat
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One category "no OS", with also at least 211€ off, would be great. Don't need nothing on my device when I install Arch from scratch anyway. Or nc -lp 42069 > /dev/main/root and cat /dev/sda3 | nc 192.168.178.x -p 42069, recreate /dev/main/swap and reinstall /dev/main/boot. Or just nc -lp 42069 > /dev/nvme0n1 and cat /dev/nvme0n1 | nf 192.168.178.x -p 42069
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I wish other choices in life were this easy.
Wtf I dont have that option when I look at the same laptop on the nz version of the website.
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Oh those price tags make me happy
Interesting. Only Fedora seems to be available in Norway.
I'm still 2 years away from a new work laptop (my current one is doing just fine anyway), but when the time comes, I might go for this. Was thinking about going ThinkPad+Linux anyway.
They will pay you to take it!
Now if only Asus did that as wel, then we'd be balling