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On 29/05/2024 13:10, David Brown wrote:While I prefer to get machines without an OS, I can't see any issue with wiping existing Windows - I've done that countless times. When you buy a machine with Windows "pre-installed", no one has paid more than a handful of dollars/pounds/kroner for it. Indeed, the crap-ware vendors might have sponsored it, and I don't mind if their money was wasted.>Yes, I got a job at Cambridge which didn't work out (Cantab dons, much
It wasn't the cheapest available, and 64 GB memory (and 4 TB SSD) don't come free. (And I buy these bare-bones. Machines with Windows "pre-installed" are often cheaper because they are sponsored by the junk-ware and ad-ware forced on unsuspecting users.)
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less tolerant people then their counterparts at another university, but
that's another story). And I was given a brand new Windows machine, and
told that we had to use Linux. So I installed a Linux version which ran
on top of Windows. No good, I was told. Might cause problems with that "interesting" set up. So I had to scrub a brand new version of Windows. It felt like the most extravagant waste.
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