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M1 Air costs USD $750 where I live.
Hyperbole to sell an easily disprovable false narrative. For what?
Calm down and eat your lunch, Helen.
That MacBook will have 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage, which is completely useless, not to mention fucking highway robbery when you can buy a Windows laptop for half of that with better specs.
LOL I'd love to see you prove me wrong. Go on ahead. It's easy!
God, debate perverts are annoying.
That is not how it works. You have to proof your claim. If you want to be taken serious at least.
That's exactly how it works when someone else calls your claim "easily disprovable".
You said thousands of dollars. They're not thousands. And yeah, you can get a cheaper machine. And put some flavor of GNU/Linux on that too!
Highest market share ever, these days!
I don't think you need a CS degree to run through this guide.
Here's all the "techy people you know that might want to help you don't know anything about Linux" coming together as a community to share what they know about the distro I linked to.
Stop being hyperbolic.
But they are...
Not pre-installed.
None of those links prove me wrong. Try again.
They do for me!
Once again, here's one at $750.
Here's some great laptops with GNU/Linux pre-installed.
Here's another company!
There are vendors supplying workforce laptops and miniPC's running MintOS for less than $350 per unit, in bulk!
All of them prove your silly, bogus assertions wrong.
Nah. Don't have to.
Once again, completely unusable.
Niche suppliers normies have never heard of. Can't find them on retail sites or in stores. Also very expensive.
I know all of these things. I use Linux. I think Linux is better than Windows. I'm just answering the question of why so many people continue to use Windows.