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Windows itself costs $200 or so. LogMeIn isn't worth 5 times as much as the operating system. At that price, it very quickly becomes cheaper to investigate alternatives like just using a Linux machine where remote management is a breeze, and there are tons of high-quality, free tools (with optional paid support contracts that are very inexpensive by comparison.)

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Although I agree with your statement of value, it should be noted that Windows does not cost companies $200. Microsoft has a much lower per seat number that most companies pay.

Take a look at the pricing for Jetbrains products. 500€ for the first year only. I'm sure it has some features above "vim with syntax highlighting" but I can't tell which one costs 500.

JetBrains's ReSharper and their Rider IDE are both excellent products and do a ton more than just "vim with syntax highlighting".

ReSharper alone would easily save me that much per year in productivity gains.

I moved over to Ubuntu from Windows, so picking up Rider as my replacement for Visual Studio was well worth it - and at about 1/3 of the price of Visual Studio alone (and having the ReSharper features built in) it was a bargain.

The nice thing about their pricing is that it gets cheaper in the the second year and then again the third year. So from the third year on it's only 389 euro/year for the toolbox bundle that includes all products, so you'll be set for tools tools for any mainstream language.

Yeah, 900€ just for two years is nothing. And this is just for the IntelliJ IDEA, not the whole pack. The standalone Office suite is 650€ for life. Photoshop from Adobe is quite a lot cheaper (some variant goes for $120/yr).

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