Pete Travis <lists <at> petetravis.com> writes: > Yes, my experience is that buying user devices like laptops and desktops (servers are a different story) > are not cheaper without Windows preinstalled. That wasn't the case ~10 years ago when I > started asking, and it wasn't the case recently when deploying ~100 machines for $dayjob that > were immediately reimaged using our Windows site licence without ever booting the OEM install.
Yes, if anything I've found that no-OS machines are if anything more expensive, due to the lack of the "crapware discount". And there are utilities you can use to backup up the existing activation, and then do a clean install, getting rid of the crapware. And on occasion Windows is necessary for doing things (like updating firmware) that aren't supported on Linux, and you don't need to devote a lot of disk space to it just to have it around. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
