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Comment by xarope

5 days ago

minus the cost of windows

minus the cost of supporting windows

minus the cost of malware and virii on windows

hmm, so that works pretty well, IMHO :-P

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qn9n  5 days ago

Windows is like 80? For the average user the average cost of supporting windows is basically 80.

You can get windows laptops for $100–$500 just get one of those and put Linux on it? Not a single person's grandmother (except maybe that one that plays Skyrim) needs a $1400 laptop, total waste of resources.

  • flkiwi  5 days ago

    My kid has an excellent Thinkpad I picked up for something like $500. Runs linux (NixOS, specifically) perfectly well. Even the fingerprint reader works! And if he spills something on it, replacing it is substantially less awful.

    • qn9n  3 days ago

      Yep, pre-owned Thinkpad is going to be your best option, slap a decent Linux distribution on it and that thing will run for years and years. No need to spend thousands on a laptop that will be used by a kid or an elderly person.