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Steam On Linux Use Skyrocketed In March - More Than Double The macOS Gaming Marketshare (www.phoronix.com)
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[–] 11 points 7 months ago (4 children)

paying Microsoft for an operating system

To be fair, I haven't paid Microsoft for my OS...ever. And it's not even piracy.

I got a licence for free through my university when I was in uni. And Microsoft seemed happy to let me keep using it and even upgrading it. I started on Windows 8, upgraded for free to Windows 10. If my PC didn't have a processor that seemingly arbitrarily they decided can't run Windows 11, I could be on that today.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 child)

    Often OEMs pay for windows if you buy a prebuilt or a laptop. So you might pay Microsoft indirectly.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    I've had two PCs over this time period. One came with a pirated copy of Windows (bought overseas) and I later installed a legit copy with my uni's licence. The other I transferred that same licence across to after building the PC myself.

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