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Dremor@lemmy.world 3 days agoI can show you many receipts where I bought a Windows laptop without a trace of any Windows licence on it.
Same, you can’t really install macOS on anything else than a Mac.
Sure you can do a Hackintosh, or run Windows without a proper licence (you can buy a Windows for like… $2 on the grey market). But you won’t have any support…
floo@retrolemmy.com 3 days ago
What does any of that have to do with the fact that macOS is free?
Dremor@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It is not free if you have to pay a specific hardware from the same company to run it. Same goes for windows, it is not free if you are forced to buy Windows in the laptop.
In both case you pay for the software through the hardware.
floo@retrolemmy.com 3 days ago
Of course it is. It cost me nothing to download and install it.
Unless you can show me how you’re actually paying for the operating system, then I don’t see how you can keep making this argument. It makes no sense.
Dremor@lemmy.world 3 days ago
You can download Windows for free too. But in both case you won’t have any support unless you are running it on the authorized hardware. Windows does it though a licence, Apple through the hardware kirks.
Go on, try installing your “free” OS on a Thinkpad, and tell me if you manage to get it running.