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Shopping for a laptop as a Linux user:

Screenshot from the Simpsons where Otto is talking to Marge and Homer standing next to a window in their house with a caption “Oh wow, windows!.. I don’t think I can afford this place.”

    • derpgon@programming.dev
      73·
      8 months ago

      Buy a second hand machine, try before buying, choose a ThinkPad. Mine is going strong 5 years now, daily work driver.

      • TimeNaan@lemmy.worldOP
        113·
        8 months ago

        I already have a used ThinkPad and have been using it for many years. I’m trying to get a second laptop, but for reasons I can’t choose a used one. Only new machines and in a low price bracket. There’s just nothing that comes without preinstalled Windows and associated tax.

        EDIT: Why is this getting downvoted?

        • derpgon@programming.dev
          3·
          8 months ago

          I see, well you’ll probably have to either eat the cost or contact a small seller directly and see if he can do a device without Windows for lower price. Worst case scenario you’ll get denied.