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[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (14 children)

Well yeah. Imagine for a 250$ "Operating system" to take weeks until it performs the same as a FOSS OS.

Edit: 259€.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (7 children)

I'm sorry, 250 bucks? Where does it cost that much? 😅

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Windows 11 Pro, doesn't matter if it's just the License or with USB, officially costs 259€. Which is ~289 USD.

https://www.microsoft.com/de-de/d/windows-11-pro/dg7gmgf0d8h4/000P

And even for the US, it's 200$.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/d/windows-11-pro/dg7gmgf0d8h4/000P

This is just the official price. Of course, you'll almost always get free Win 11 Home with new computers, or a Volume License for 10€ from ebay, or you just don't activate it. But the official price by M$ is 259€/200$. Which kinda means they think it is worth that much, and it would be justified to charge germans almost 300 USD for "an advertisement delivery platform strapped to a program loader".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Holy shit, that's wild lol. I've only been thinking about the Home version, which you can get around here for about 140 bucks at most 😅

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Yep. But the fact M$ believes a few tools that are even far, far inferior to Linux' tools are worth 60$ is a statement in itself.

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