"Pay hundreds of dollars for a new computer"?
Forget this guy's struggles with Windows, I want to know where they're buying sub-1K PCs in 2025. I'll debloat Windows 8 for that deal if I have to.
this post was submitted on 22 Apr 2025
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You haven't looked at all. There's zillions of them everywhere
"New" can also mean "new to me".
Let me open a random online computer shop here in Central Europe, and I am greeted with this:
Ranging from shit-tier 300€ office and youtube machine to 1k€ entry-level macbook. Sure, it's no thinkpad carbon pro ultra leet, but face it, most people don't buy that (or buy that used)
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It's not as bad as people make out, but buying a brand new Windows machine is a pretty annoying experience.
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Anon's on 4chan. He literally just has to go from v to g to have a treasure trove of information on how to not deal with this exact problem.
I can mind the popups and ads but its the surveillance that I don't like. Mc recall was the whole reason I deleted my os and got arch