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Shopping for a laptop as a Linux user:

Screenshot from the Simpsons where Otto is talking to Marge and Homer standing next to a window in their house with a caption “Oh wow, windows!.. I don’t think I can afford this place.”

  • @TimeNaanOP
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    610 months ago

    Yet they don’t sell laptops without windows in my country.

    • @[email protected]
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      410 months ago

      Buy a second hand machine, try before buying, choose a ThinkPad. Mine is going strong 5 years now, daily work driver.

      • @TimeNaanOP
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        10 months ago

        I already have a used ThinkPad and have been using it for many years. I’m trying to get a second laptop, but for reasons I can’t choose a used one. Only new machines and in a low price bracket. There’s just nothing that comes without preinstalled Windows and associated tax.

        EDIT: Why is this getting downvoted?

        • @[email protected]
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          310 months ago

          I see, well you’ll probably have to either eat the cost or contact a small seller directly and see if he can do a device without Windows for lower price. Worst case scenario you’ll get denied.

          • @TimeNaanOP
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            110 months ago

            That’s a cool project, but I need something with a little more power than a Chromebook.