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Libraries are not companies, they don’t need to make a profit. They are supported by taxes. The computers they have are old because they work perfectly fine.

They probably don’t pay for licensing, and the cost to maintain non-windows OS would be more due to having to hire people with that skill set.

The hate for Edge here is excessive.

I have both a gas and the cheapest induction range/oven combo I could find and the induction is way better.

People saying gas is better are just wrong.

Gas should be incentivized out of residential new construction, and probably banned from new multi family dwellings

Ms makes it very obvious that O365 is available when you turn on a new machine.

Have you ran the vendors update utility? I see new Lenovos fairly often and their updates address various things that affect fan and cooling.

Have you adjusted the power plan at all? Use a default “balanced” power plan.

Is there an app that seems to have regular cpu usage?

Did you remove the ads-on antivirus software yet? It’s usually garbage. The built-in windows defender isn’t the best, but it’s good enough and usually doesn’t cause issues.

Thinkbook t14

Free as in a standalone app or as in its part of something you already own?

The gmail and Microsoft both have apps that are not only cross-platform, web-accessible, and cloud sync’d but they integrate with native apps in your phone.

TLDs are a scam.