alt Hacker NewsThey aren’t US based right? Does that mean tariffs for US shipping?
Are these a good pick for a non-programmer who is interested in Linux but intimidated by it?
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kombine • today at 6:19 AM
As the other commenter said, evaluate a live usb with any distribution with KDE Plasma Desktop, for example Fedora, OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, or Endeavour OS (Arch Linux based). You can also try something like Fedora Kinoite or Bazzite, so called immutable distributions which make it really easy to use for non-technical people.
jxcole • today at 2:38 AM
Have you tried it out?
https://askubuntu.com/questions/629632/can-you-boot-ubuntu-s...
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d3Xt3r • today at 3:07 AM
Check out System76 and Framework, they're based in the US and ship Linux machines.
Looks like they're UK based. I don't know, but apparently tariffs etc are factored into the shipping fees shown on their site.
If you're not sure if you want to go Linux yet, it's probably best to try a live USB stick of a few distros on your existing hardware. Get a feel for what the interface is like, how things work, how it works on your hardware, etc, without actually changing anything. Seems like a better bet to me than buying all-new hardware.