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How does this work nowadays when you buy a PC from a store?
Does it come with Windows already installed?
And if so, with what account?
this post was submitted on 29 Mar 2025
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Meh... Yet another thing that everyone will just accept as a new norm. :c
Yet another reason to not use windows 11.
Chiming in as well with a Linux distro: peppermint , debian based. If you want the horrors to persist but kind of limited check out windows ameliorated. https://ameliorated.io/
Tried Pop PS recently. Night and day difference.
Looks like I’ll finally be migrating my final workstation off of Windows 11.
I mean, I still have a while. The Dell T7910 still meets all of the Windows 11 Workstation 24H2 requirements, so Rufus only needs to modify that one part of the installer. And once I have Windows installed, I can do upgrades over Windows Update.
But once the machine gets too old for that…
At least OpenSUSE meets most of my needs.