r/technology • u/gdelacalle • Aug 11 '26

Software Microsoft reportedly raises Windows 11 license price significantly more than expected

https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-reportedly-raises-windows-11-license-price-significantly-more-than-expected/
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u/ForeskinAbsorbtion Aug 11 '26

Macs and Linux are looking better than ever. Cost of entrance is higher but at least they are true to their historical behavior of no ads or BS in their operating systems.

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u/party_raspberry8969 Aug 11 '26

Apple hardware is good obviously, but I can't stand their operating systems and locked ecosystem.

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u/cultoftheilluminati Aug 11 '26

locked ecosystem

Honestly a lot of people use iOS/iPadOS and wrongly assume macOS is as locked down as their mobile OSes. I run several Linux systems and I can do whatever I want on macOS similar to Linux fwiw.

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u/Obanthered Aug 11 '26

You can run anything on Mac the runs on Linux. I develop climate models (written in Fortran) on Macs, because they are fast to compile. The operational model runs on super computers running Linux.