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Amid RAM price hikes, Microsoft reportedly raises Windows license cost, forcing OEMs to hike prices even further on hardware (www.windowscentral.com)
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[–] 29 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I would love if pc manufacturers would just ship laptops with e.g. Linux mint or fedora and just knock off the windows licence cost. I don't even mind if they have to ship it with bloatware, that's fine, as long as it just doesn't ship windows. Savvy users will just uninstall it

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  • [–] 23 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    It's possible to get refunds for unused OEM Windows licenses in the EU.

    https://en.refund4freedom.org/

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  • [–] 5 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    Wow, nice. It sounds like Asus makes it the easiest, reimbursing for the license without shipping your machine to them. I don’t understand why the others that will reimburse require physical inspection of the machine.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    to discourage you to do so

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  • [–] 6 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    I would love a tick box setup. Maybe 2 Linux distro options and a windows option for +$X or whatever so ur laptop can arrive ready to set up with the OS desired on it. Should lower cost for customers who don't need windows, and maybe people on the fence will decide window isn't worth however much more it cost to get and order the Linux version. The more units are sold with Linux the more incentive there will be to sort drivers for more hardware etc.

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