What type of OS should I buy?

[MYX]

hello everyone! for the new year im building my second PC, just wondering if I should buy a copy of windows 10 from a place like newegg, or buy a key from kinguin for only 20$

Thanks

[Electronics Wizardy]

buy the real thing for 120 ish or run it unactivated. Don't buy the grey market keys.

[pwn_intended]

Buying it from a legitimate seller is your best bet, if you have $120 or whatever it costs. Kinguin is a grey market and most of the keys are OEM or business keys. Sometimes they may get revoked, but  if you only spend $20 then just buy another later.

 

Ultimately your call.

[MYX]

whats the difference between them?

[ProjectBox153]

Running Windows unactivated doesn't do anything except put a small watermark in the corner of your display. I run unactivated copies of Windows Server.

[knightslugger]

OEM keys are new, never issued keys.

 

Kinguin keys may have been issued to OEM computers that underwent a custom corporate imaging to say Win 7 and some custom software and were never activated (or maybe they where... you don't know). Kinguin gets their hands on the keys somehow and issues them willy nilly.

[m0k]

PaulsHardware has mentioned several times he has not had problems with Kinguin 

I wouldnt mind going with kinguin on my personal pc, its just $20 

worst case scenario it doesnt work.... people throw $20 away on worse things

[ProjectBox153]

I'd try Kinguin first, worst case it's just $20. 

[MoraisGT]

Depending on what you want to use the PC for, you might not need to buy an OS at all. You could run a Linux distro.

[Daniel644]

kinquin has Windows 10 for like 25 and a few bucks more for buyers protection if the key doesn't work, the difference is it's am OEM key so it only works on 1 computer and doesn't get the tech support other copies get, remember Kinquin is like the Ebay of software keys, you aren't buying from them, you are buying from a seller that sells through them, go with a top rated seller and you probably won't have an issue.

 

also running unactivated does more then "just places a watermark" many settings (including the ability to create additional user accounts on the PC) get locked out.

[WkdPaul]

Moved to Windows