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Install Linux already, get it over with. Windows has been and still is a sad joke, why pay for that crap?
People pay for windows?
You can get a legit Windows 11 key for like 5 bucks, no reason not to install it honestly. Even if only for dual booting, it can save you a lot of headaches.
Psst... massgrave.dev
A product key, which allows you to use Windows to its fullest, costs money to Microsoft.
That's a myth that people need to stop spreading.
Microsoft is a business. Microsoft is also not stupid. If it cost them more to provide a product than it makes them, they wouldn't provide it. They're is a huge amount of examples of them doing this. They don't provide it because they're nicer guys.
Microsoft uses Windows, and all of it's products, as a vehicle for Azure and advertisers. Everything they do feeds into that one way or another.
Microsoft stopped being a software company some time ago.
Sorry, I meant it costs money, which goes to Microsoft. It was poorly worded.
That makes sense. 👍
Most people here pirate it or get the price bundled with their manufacturer. It’s surprisingly easy