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Nah, almost nobody buys software these days. Even the bastion of capitalism that is Windows is now free.
by slededit 8y ago
Nah, almost nobody buys software these days. Even the bastion of capitalism that is Windows is now free.
- badpun 8y agoWindows is not free.
- slededit 8y agoJust skip entering a key. It won’t bother you. Before that it was the free upgrade from win7/8 which was unprecedented. They really want you to be on win 10 to push their store.
- blacksmith_tb 8y agoBut they don't give you an ISO to download for free, do they? Even Apple makes it a little awkward to get the actual OS installer (if you aren't already on a Mac running the App Store.app).
- orf 8y agoSure they do. It's like literally the first result for "windows 10 iso".
- blacksmith_tb 8y agoHa! Oddly I can't actually get that page to render, I see it paint for a second and then it goes white and tries to load some tracking js forever. But point taken!
- J_cst 8y agoLast time I tried to download the win10 iso while on windows, their site proposed me the download of something along the lines of an installation tool. Shortly after that I tried the same webpage while running Ubuntu and the site proposed me the download of the full win10 iso. I believe that the webpage checks few alternatives prior to passing you the ISO .
- badpun 8y ago> Just skip entering a key. It won’t bother you. Tell that to the police when then check your PC for pirated software...
- NullPrefix 8y agoYes, because your time is not free, which you will be forced to spent while fighting the OS.
- PopeDotNinja 8y ago> because your time is not free That makes Debian-flavored Linux my most expensive operating system. I spent a non-trivial amount of time figuring out how that thing works at all! Actually, I spent way more time on Windows back in the day, so I guess Debian was a relative bargain.