Fun fact: Lenovo sells some laptops without Windows license too. The amount saved will depend on the laptop and region. Unfortunately this isn’t available for all laptops.
Wish more did that tbh…esp as a tech person who MS and apple ran off with choices they made. Plus I like having more freedom on shiz to customize things more without risk it’ll break that easily(without a major yearly update withstanding but still not as often as windows…)
My concern was around situations where someone buys keys with a stolen credit card, and sells them as a form of money laundering.
That feels nefarious, and not participating in marketplaces with a high likelihood of participating in money laundering seems like a good method of harm reduction.
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you are morally obligated to pirate windows 10 ltsc
(if you must use windows)
Fun fact: Lenovo sells some laptops without Windows license too. The amount saved will depend on the laptop and region. Unfortunately this isn’t available for all laptops.
Example:
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If you’re just buying a laptop/desktop normally, you’re paying this without realizing it.
In this case, it’s 22.5% of the price.
Wish more did that tbh…esp as a tech person who MS and apple ran off with choices they made. Plus I like having more freedom on shiz to customize things more without risk it’ll break that easily(without a major yearly update withstanding but still not as often as windows…)
Skimmed the US site. Unless I’m dumb, there’s no Non-Windows Key options on any products other than a Linux-variant that they currently up charge for.
What a shithole company.
There are people selling oem keys on eBay for $5-$7. It’s too easy to buy a “legit” key at this point.
but why would you when you can get it for free it’s not like ms is gonna give two fucks about you. they make their real $$ from business licenses
And it’s super easy to activate it while having pirated it
Not to mention that Windows is basically completely functional without being activated
And most of the stuff they disable can be reenabled via group policy. Only thing I need personally is dark mode.
But what’s the risk you’re buying keys purchased with stolen funds like on sketchy video game key resellers?
You lose your 5-7€ because the code doesn’t exist or has already been used.
That literally is it.
It is just a short string of letters and numbers, nothing nefarious can be done with that.
My concern was around situations where someone buys keys with a stolen credit card, and sells them as a form of money laundering.
That feels nefarious, and not participating in marketplaces with a high likelihood of participating in money laundering seems like a good method of harm reduction.
kid named Microsoft Activation Scripts: