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A small price to pay for an operating system that perfectly works out of the box and is free as in "there is a little watermark at the bottom of my screen".
by Traubenfuchs 10y ago
A small price to pay for an operating system that perfectly works out of the box and is free as in "there is a little watermark at the bottom of my screen".
- dualogy 10y agoIs that actually the case? (Didn't know as I upgraded my older non-Linux laptop from W7 to W10 and it re-activated automatically.) It won't cripple the OS after say 90 days other than a watermark, eg for long-lived VMs? Would be cool for web designers just occasionally checking Edge rendering in a VM once in a blue moon with otherwise zero interest in the OS..
- Aoyagi 10y agoIt's not free on any level. It doesn't work perfectly.
- ionised 10y agoExcept neither of those is/was true. Windows 10 has had its share of issues, usually resulting from updates breaking things. It's also not free. That was a limited time deal for owners of previous versions of Windows. Most future users will pay for it, either as a Retail copy or as an increased price for whatever Windows-based sysytem they might buy in the future.
- kortex 10y agoWindows 10 is not free, neither as in beer or libre. Sure, they gave it away for a little bit, but by that logic, drugs are free, because the guy down the street gave me some free baggies because 'he likes me'!