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  • To anyone downvoting the comment above, you can use windows indefinitely without a key. The only thing that happens is you get some text on the screen (that sometimes goes away for no reason) and you can’t change the background. They don’t give two f’s. They could easily block keys / stop them from working if misused, but they don’t care. Same reason why every laptop comes with a license. They put it there because it costs them nothing. They’d rather have market share, than get money upfront. They probably make bank on other things (i.e. the analytics, ads, etc)






  • Maalus@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldIt happens 🤷
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    6 months ago

    A day on wikipedia doesn’t get you “installed linux and is actively using it at work” level of knowledge. For cars, the better analogy would be “I can replace the transmission in my car”. Everyone knows how “computers work”. Not a lot of people know how to install a different OS.


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    6 months ago

    The easy solution for that is a kvm switch. You have two pcs, and switch between them with a button press, keeping the same mouse, keyboard and monitor.

    Best use is for personal PC and work laptop, but if you specifically want to switch between linux and windows pcs, then it should be fine if you use that.


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    6 months ago

    Except for the fact, that you do that to plenty of other disciplines of life. It is simply that some people need a computer to work, they don’t need one as a hobby. They don’t want to “learn a new thing” they want their machine to output some calculations in excel. Same as you don’t learn woodworking when ordering a table from Ikea, or learning medicine when going to a checkup.