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Why can't I just buy it without being charged for preinstalled spyware?(lemmy.world)

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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.”

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Microsoft would make more from continued Windows usage (between selling data and products like Office) then that license key sold in volume to the OEM.

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