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While I don't want to discuss the quality of any distro vs Windows, there is a big reason most of us use free software: because it is free. Whether for you it
by AshamedCaptain 17d ago
While I don't want to discuss the quality of any distro vs Windows, there is a big reason most of us use free software: because it is free.
Whether for you it is because of free as in freedom or free as in beer specifically, quality may not have much to do with it.
- dist-epoch 17d agoIn EU at least you can almost get free as in beer Windows, you can buy a fully legal 2nd hand (resold) Windows license for about $10, the price of a fancy beer.
- normie3000 17d agoIsn't Windows also basically free? Every laptop I buy has a Windows licence stuck to the bottom of it.
- AshamedCaptain 17d agoNo and you missed the "freedom" part of the adage.
- itishappy 17d agoNo, you've been charged for every one of those licenses.
- fhn 17d agowhich means you paid for it. just because it comes bundled doesn't mean always it's free. https://en.refund4freedom.org/ https://en.refund4freedom.org/
- inigyou 17d agoYou can also just pirate it.
- Brian_K_White 17d agoWindows is already free for ~everyone. Make less idiotic arguments.