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Ryzen CPU owners can now download better gaming performance thanks to a Windows 11 update
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Windows 11 Pro, doesn't matter if it's just the License or with USB, officially costs 259€. Which is ~289 USD.
https://www.microsoft.com/de-de/d/windows-11-pro/dg7gmgf0d8h4/000P
And even for the US, it's 200$.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/d/windows-11-pro/dg7gmgf0d8h4/000P
This is just the official price. Of course, you'll almost always get free Win 11 Home with new computers, or a Volume License for 10€ from ebay, or you just don't activate it. But the official price by M$ is 259€/200$. Which kinda means they think it is worth that much, and it would be justified to charge germans almost 300 USD for "an advertisement delivery platform strapped to a program loader".
$160 for OEM Win 11 Pro, or $120 for OEM Win 11 Home. Just be careful because swapping hardware could break the license, and you'd need to call M$ to get it fixed.
Or just install w/o a license key and deal with the watermark (I assume it's the same as w/ Win 10). That's what I did since I primarily use Linux and only use Windows to test random stuff.
Win 11 Pro for 2.50€ on ebay.
I only use Windows in a VM, and never activated it, ever, but my point is that M$ officially thinks that their "advertisement delivery platform strapped to a program loader" is worth 259.00€.
Holy shit, that's wild lol. I've only been thinking about the Home version, which you can get around here for about 140 bucks at most 😅
cough https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts cough
Officially sanctioned by Microsoft!
Yep. But the fact M$ believes a few tools that are even far, far inferior to Linux' tools are worth 60$ is a statement in itself.