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    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    M1 Air costs USD $750 where I live.

    That MacBook will have 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage, which is completely useless, not to mention fucking highway robbery when you can buy a Windows laptop for half of that with better specs.

    Hyperbole to sell an easily disprovable false narrative.

    LOL I'd love to see you prove me wrong. Go on ahead. It's easy!

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

    LOL I'd love to see you prove me wrong. Go on ahead. It's easy!

    God, debate perverts are annoying.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    That is not how it works. You have to proof your claim. If you want to be taken serious at least.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    That's exactly how it works when someone else calls your claim "easily disprovable".

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    That MacBook will have 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage, which is completely useless, not to mention fucking highway robbery when you can buy a Windows laptop for half of that with better specs.

    You said thousands of dollars. They're not thousands. And yeah, you can get a cheaper machine. And put some flavor of GNU/Linux on that too!

    LOL I'd love to see you prove me wrong. Go on ahead. It's easy!

    Highest market share ever, these days!

    I don't think you need a CS degree to run through this guide.

    Here's all the "techy people you know that might want to help you don't know anything about Linux" coming together as a community to share what they know about the distro I linked to.

    Stop being hyperbolic.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    You said thousands of dollars. They're not thousands.

    But they are...

    And yeah, you can get a cheaper machine. And put some flavor of GNU/Linux on that too!

    Not pre-installed.

    None of those links prove me wrong. Try again.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

    They do for me!

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    But they are...

    Once again, here's one at $750.

    Not pre-installed.

    Here's some great laptops with GNU/Linux pre-installed.

    Here's another company!

    There are vendors supplying workforce laptops and miniPC's running MintOS for less than $350 per unit, in bulk!

    None of those links prove me wrong.

    All of them prove your silly, bogus assertions wrong.

    Try again.

    Nah. Don't have to.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Once again, here's one at $750.

    Once again, completely unusable.

    Tuxedo

    System76

    Niche suppliers normies have never heard of. Can't find them on retail sites or in stores. Also very expensive.

    I know all of these things. I use Linux. I think Linux is better than Windows. I'm just answering the question of why so many people continue to use Windows.