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And Windows is free if you your time is worthless and you pretend you didn't fork over a wodge of cash. Can we kill this meme already?

• frozenport 11y ago
  On one hand Windows is free because it came with my laptop, on the other hand a day of my time lost on Linux is worth more than the $200 Windows license. Although this is very much about Linux on desktops.
  • ionised 11y ago
    Your laptop costs more because it comes with Windows. It's not free.
  • vetinari 11y ago
    I've lost orders of magnitude more time on windows, than on linux. (Embedded linux devices included in the math).
  • BetaCygni 11y ago
    Windows: easy things are easy, normal things require some googling, hard things are impossible. Linux: easy things are easy, normal things require some googling, hard things are hard.
    • cm2187 11y ago
      Well, from my short experience with linux, easy things require googling on linux. I was trying to open a port to make remote desktop work. I classify that as easy.
      • BetaCygni 11y ago
        You may be right, googling doesn't take much time though. A Linux system without internet is indeed barely usable. Thos man pages are absolutely unreadable.