So after a year of saving up, the parts for my PC are coming

Pirating Windows 7 is a bitch, most want keys and high chance of viruses

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>>383439326
dumb moco poster

Just buy it.

Get a legit ISO of Windows and use AutoKMS. Just make sure you get it from a legit source, there's all sorts of fake mirrors.

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buy it man I had a friend pirate windows and now he's serving life in prison no joke

whats high risk about pirating windows?

ive used the same activation program for 5 years

>>383439326
Probably just buy it, I would have but I got my W7 key for free from Microsoft when I was in college that I still use.

>>383439326
Which version of Windows are you thinking?

I like 7 the best, but it only has a few more years until EOL and is being neglected already. I've heard you can wrangle windows 8 down to something resembling a respectable desktop if you put the effort in. Windows 10 is spyware central and likes to change your settings without warning every update but it is also the only place where you can get Bone Zone games on your PC and use DirectX12.

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>>383439326
>Pirating windows - high risk

>>383439856
oh shit I'm still in college maybe I can get a key too
>>383439948
I would have done Windows 7 a few years back but it's getting kind of outdated and I don't want to have to worry about it 2-3 years down the line. Probably gonna do W10 since I don't have too much of a problem with microsoft invading my privact

>>383439326
>Pirating windows
>High risk
What the fuck are you on ive been using pirated copies of windows for fuckin years.

>>383439326
Get Windows 10 for free and never put any information about you on this computer.

Or install gento and playonlinux.

>>383439326
>Pirating windows - high risk and complicated but free
Are you trying to bait us into posting you a tutorial?

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>tfw pirated Windows 7 and got a free legit update to Windows 10 when Microsoft was desperate for adopters

Took awhile but I'm used to it now.

>>383441910
>Are you trying to bait us into posting you a tutorial?
W-what?! No! No, no, no...Y-yes.

>spending hundreds of dollars on hardware
>not spending 90$ to have the core piece of software all the hardware runs on be legitimate
Spend the money on windows 7. If you have to get 10, just buy a refurbished laptop with 7 instead and return all the shit you bought.

>>383441971
>"free"
Your personal info is the payment. Also, ads on an OS.

>pirating Windows
>complicated and high risk
Just download a Windows 7 .iso from Microsoft and unlock it with Daz loader, you fucking twit.

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>>383439326
Or you could download Linux and have no risk and not even complicated.

https://xubuntu.org/getxubuntu/
Here's is a distro similar to windows.

>>383442359
What ads?

>>383439326
OP. You're paying food money for parts. Don't fuck it up by backdooring your system by pirating. Additionally, Microsoft does silly shit with keys.

just buy windows 10 off of amazon or something. you'll want windows 10 because of dx12 support which windows 7 will lack.

>>383442236
If he's buying a pc for gaming and he isn't rich, all his software is going to be pirated anyway

>>383443321
Click the start menu.
Recieve ads.

>>383439326
I feel bad for you for having to buy a PC while the cryptocurrency faggots have inflated the prices.

Also go with Linux.

>>383439326
>pirating is complicated
Oh, so I found out why /v/ suddenly loved g2a: half of you are underaged retards.

>>383444837
Can I play dx12 games on it?

>>383445593
Soon™

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OP here.
A bunch of people have been saying piracy is an option as it isn't as unsafe as I thought (one time I downloaded a windows 7 iso for shits and giggles and my antivirus said it was bad and I didn't really want to risk it) so I'm looking at that now but keep in mind I don't have anything to pirate it on atm.
This might be a roundabout way of going about it but can I install Linux on the PC, pirate windows 7 and replace Linux with that, and then get a legit update to Windows 10?
>inb4 just stick with Linux
Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't Linux have basically no officially supported steam games? It's my understanding that Linux and SteamOS are the same and SteamOS is a pile of shit

>>383439326
Who is this jizz wizz?

>>383446010
GNU/Linux has a bunch of games. You could dual boot. Plus, do you really want to be unprepared when Microsoft pulls the rug out from under people and makes Windows 10 run stuff store-only? There will be alternatives and competitors like GNU/Linux, but in the intermediate there's going to be a ton of confusion.

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>>383439814
This I used windows loader and scanned with win7 malwarebytes easy as hell

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>>383446010
>basically no officially supported steam games
Yeah no. Also about 90% of the games not natively on Linux, I can run through wine. Sure I agree with you in that SteamOS is for an extremely niche case where you want your PC to act like a console.

>>383446981
>>383446010
Also SteamOS =/= Linux. SteamOS is just a flavor of Linux. Much like not all faggots are OPs, but all OPs are faggots.

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>>383439326

Pirate windows 7/8.1 free upgrade to 10 through the disability/accesability exception.

Or go linux if you're gonna bitch about the spyware.