My mom bought a used laptop absolutely riddled with spyware, linux isn’t an option

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Like others have said, just use official windows and don’t activate, only downside is the watermark afaik.

Alternatively, you can buy licences for like 1-2 $ off eBay and other similar sites. Just make sure the licence and the version you install matches otherwise it won’t activate

@HerrBeter@lemmy.world
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This. Bought two keys for $3 each and no risk of any malware

@jack55555@lemmy.ml
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Why, the laptop came with Windows so it has a license. Why not use it?

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It it already had a license even better, yeah, no need to buy a new one. Figured that wasn’t the case since they asked how to pirate it.

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