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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

$200 less (you save money not buying windows)

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Which makes the win11 pro license $297? That's obscene.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Windows licenses ain't cheap. Never have been.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

you can get them for like 20$, probably even cheaper but i paid about 20 not 6 months ago for w11

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I see 11 Pro straight from MS for $200, why the fuck are they charging almost $300 for it? lmao

edit- someone pointed out it's CAD

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

the same reason they charge 30 for Linux