@creamqueen @Forestofenchantment @waifu @mischievoustomato @ElDeadKennedy With windows, you pay with your freedom, which is more valuable than $200.

If you buy a computer with windows on it, on even a computer without windows from a manufacturer who has agreed to pay for windows per-unit, whether or not it's installed or not, you have paid for windows.

Even computer component companies who haven't signed such agreements seem to slightly increase their prices to make up for their losses for the consequences of windows.

Even if you used an authorized activator and haven't immorally directly given microsoft money, you are still immorally increasing the network effect of windows and giving then profits due to all the ads and spyware they can show/afflict you with by using it.


It's only a feature if proprietary malware games don't run on LiGNUx.