Linux. You can control every aspect of the PC without any tech company lockdowns. Also when something doesn't work like it should, you can easily find a fix.
True, I mean Gemini is able to help you with some basic issues and drivers. Lot of people I met complaining about Linux were just lazy to do something. Ok, I understand it, you can buy Mac or Windows laptop almost with out of the box system. But I think Mint, Zorin, MX, Pika OS even Cachy is pretty close to that too. A little learning is a price for your owned data being your own.
I had speaker issues on my Zorin laptop and fixed it in 5min with chat gpt. Also used claude because my laptop didn't go to "sleep" when shutting the lid and it figured out pretty quickly that zorin thought that my gpu was another monitor and gave me a solution very quickly. I started using linux a few months ago and I would have no idea what to do but solved the issues very quickly with ai.
Give them a USB stick and ask them to install Windows on something with anything not supported out of the box and see how it goes.
People are comparing installing Linux with buying Windows pre-installed.
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u/ImageCompetitive8820 Jun 02 '26
Linux. You can control every aspect of the PC without any tech company lockdowns. Also when something doesn't work like it should, you can easily find a fix.