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by Moru 2217 days ago
The common reason to buy a computer preinstalled with linux is to not pay the windows/ios tax. Not that the price would be different though.
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dkersten 2217 days ago
For me it’s more about making sure the hardware support is good.
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usr1106 2217 days ago
The sad fact is that the Microsoft tax is cheaper than the extra costs niche manufacturers need to charge because by nature they have worse economics of scale.
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CountSessine 2217 days ago
Yeah - there’s that too. I need to run Windows in a VM anyways for some specialized tasks, so having the Windows license is useful.
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