They 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?

kombine 20 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

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.

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ufmace 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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.

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jxcole 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Have you tried it out?

https://askubuntu.com/questions/629632/can-you-boot-ubuntu-s...

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SilentM68 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You can also use Ventoy to boot the ISOs which is somewhat easier in my view.

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SilverElfin 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

A long time ago. But I ran into all sorts of issues. It was a struggle getting things like Bluetooth or WiFi working. And I just couldn’t get myself to feeling like I could ‘trust it’. Like that I wouldn’t break it and somehow lose all my data in th process.

	▲	fragmede 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That's a reasonable fear! But the solution to that is to set up backups, no matter what the operating system you're on.

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d3Xt3r 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Check out System76 and Framework, they're based in the US and ship Linux machines.