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[-] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

If you are selling 400 dollar and even 800 dollar laptops, a 100 dollar license is a huge chunk of the cost.

Gonna note that, on those rare occasions I have the funds to madly research the most optimal PC build I can every like...7+ years...the "Oh man, forgot the OS is another $100+!" Always felt like such an insult!

Whelp, now with OpenSUSE Tumbleweed I'll never have to worry about that again. :)

[-] highball@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Yeah that extra Microsoft tax is a killer. Plus, you'll notice your systems seems new and snappy for the life of the hardware, unlike Windows. Where your system gets slower and slower every year. I used a Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro with Ubuntu until a couple years ago. It was great until I just needed a ton more ram and tons of cores for my dev project. I basically out grew the system, it still works great, fast and snappy. Gave it to my cousin who uses it as a daily driver.

I've heard good thing about Tumbleweed. I'm sure that will keep your system feeling fast and new for life of the hardware.

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