Welp been nice knowing y’all. Guess my DSA membership means I’ll be deported to Venezuela soon.

Seriously, Chip…fuck off.

He already forgot he did this one already from the dementia.

You can run it unactivated, but it reduces some functionality. The installer has a “I don’t have a product key” option to bypass the key entry screen.

You can click the small link at the bottom of the installer that says “I don’t have a product key” and proceed through. It will then ask you what edition of Windows you want to install. This is because many PCs have hardware entitlements, so they never got a key.

The only limitation is you can’t customize your desktop/themes and there will be a permeant watermark in the lower right corner asking you to activate.

I’m aware of this as well. I was more talking about legal means of licensing.

I hate how the author frames Linux as “cheap”. Just because it’s open source and free does not mean people use it because it’s cheap. They use it because they’re tired of the shit. Windows is “free”, too, if you never activate it.

Lol $1500 a month. JFC.

“Your penis? No comrade. Our penis”