manufacturer if it's pre-installed. If you're buying it, it's about $90 to $100 now. Even though they say, we're giving it away, they're still getting licensing fees from these manufacturers. The only way that you can not support some of these practices that they're doing is you need to, in my opinion, just support the manufacturers that install Linux on it. And you don't have to worry about all that other jazz. Like what's the one? System 76. System 76 and Dell sells computers with Linux pre-installed and Lenovo sells computers with Linux pre-installed. And they also sell computers without an operating system. So those would be the only ways you could avoid. Well, there's other smaller manufacturers. Sure, sure. Absolutely. Yeah, those are just some examples. Or you could build it yourself. But that would be the only way to avoid paying Microsoft for Windows. Yeah, so the reason, and this is my opinion only, that this is becoming more and more prevalent in Windows is because people (24/43)
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