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A comment on How and Why I Stopped Buying New Laptops (2020).

Re:How and Why I Stopped Buying New Laptops (2020) by CT4u8798 on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @03:27PM (#42569025)
I never buy new laptops, and I always put linux on the ones I do buy. My only issues have been running the more resource intensive applications I needed to run as a student, and the fact that the university expects you to be running windows. But as an everyday machine a used/refurbished laptop is the way to go.
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Re:How and Why I Stopped Buying New Laptops (2020) by scarface_74 on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @03:37PM (#42569094)
Aren’t you kind of burying the lede?

You had a laptop that didn’t meet your needs?

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Re:How and Why I Stopped Buying New Laptops (2020) by CT4u8798 on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @04:39PM (#42569536)
No the laptops met my needs perfectly. They were cheap, and they ran fully up to date operating systems and the latest software. The issues with the university are issues with the university.
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Re:How and Why I Stopped Buying New Laptops (2020) by scarface_74 on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @04:51PM (#42569610)
It was an “issue” with the college that they expected you to use the operating system used by probably 80% of the population when you were in college (now 74%) instead of catering to one used by less than 5%?

Or that it didn’t run it well?

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