• The Octonaut@mander.xyz
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    13 hours ago

    Trade it in.

    In other words, someone may be willing to pay you for parts, rather than you just getting nothing for it (recycling).

    They are not going to recommend you use an alternative OS, and probably not because they’re worried about market share, but because they then have some responsibility for every time a person fucks up a Linux install.

    • ch00f@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      In other words, someone may be willing to pay you for parts,

      Except for the parts that Windows obsoleted. Not saying that they’re valueless, but they certainly tanked the value of otherwise useful parts.