Until 2015 I was buying mostly "ready to use" computers, meaning they have already been built and sold. But then I noticed that all "ready to use" computers were one way or another locked at using Crapindows only, so I started building my PC part by part. Because when the vendor doesn't know what I'm gonna use the respective part for, they can't lock it to a single OS, especially the motherboard. Locking the motherboard to a single OS or even to a single version of Crapindows was a common vendor's practice in my country in 2015 and earlier and from what I hear, some vendors still do that nowadays. What's worse, in my country I've seen a lot of cases where the pre-built configuration was supposed to have a certain hardware but it turned out to have older hardware and there's no way of you knowing that, unless you open the case which removes the warranty. I've never liked this forcing of hands to use Crapindows only, let alone the bad practices I just described and I never will, which is why I always build my PC part by part.
So, what do you prefer? A pre-built configuration or a manually built one by you personally?
So, what do you prefer? A pre-built configuration or a manually built one by you personally?