▲ 757 ▼ Amid RAM price hikes, Microsoft reportedly raises Windows license cost, forcing OEMs to hike prices even further on hardware (www.windowscentral.com) submitted 2 months ago by mereo@piefed.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world 165 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] An1m4L@lemmy.zip 1 point 2 months ago (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Bluewing@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago Since I've been Windows free for several decades now, I will hard agree with you that running your favorite distro is the Way^tm^ But I like I said, I'm under no illusions that my old hardware has a life span. Like me, someday it's going to die and not even running Arch can fix it. And if there are no old affordable parts or whole computers, what then? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Bluewing@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago Since I've been Windows free for several decades now, I will hard agree with you that running your favorite distro is the Way^tm^ But I like I said, I'm under no illusions that my old hardware has a life span. Like me, someday it's going to die and not even running Arch can fix it. And if there are no old affordable parts or whole computers, what then? permalink fedilink source parent