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 Linux fixes the Microsoft extortionists. 

“Under Microsoft’s new policy,” it says, “schools can keep Windows 10 computers in classrooms safe from attacks for three additional years by paying $1 per computer for the first year, $2 the following year, and $4 the third year.”

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(Unrelated, this link is ugly as fuck. Dammit Google.) 
 Yeah... Extortion. Gross.  
 also bill gates and sam altman are pedophiles  
 It all depends on the Linux distro. There are also very very bad distros out there. 

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 Is there a best latptop / computer for linux? Looking to make the switch 
 Literally any computer will do. As a general rule of thumb, you might have compatibility issues if you use the very latest chips as they were not well tested with Linux yet but I also think that's less and less of an issue. 
 Linux runs on a bllion devices. Anything really. Whatever you have now is probably fine? You can buy pre-built systems with Linux if you'd like to do that as well. System 76 is popular. Frame.work is a new and sex product line as well.