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You are creating a case to justify your overpriced windows laptop.

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I love Linux, have worked for the two largest Linux companeis for a few years of my life, and happily purchased laptops with entirely OSS drivers for Linux support.

And still spent a bunch of time fucking around with my laptop to make stuff work instead of getting things done.

Since all I want is a terminal and a web browser, Windows works fine, with the added benefit of occasionally being able to fire up some good quality desktop software like Tower 2 or Excel.

> some good quality desktop software like [...] Excel.

Lol

I am not sure if I understand, but if you only need a terminal and browsing, what's the problem with Linux?

I switched recently from Win7 to Linux Mint and it has been a smooth experience (granted, Libreoffice is sufficient for my use-cases). Even my relatives have little complaints and mostly stuff just works (which I can't say from my prior Win7 experience).

> I am not sure if I understand, but if you only need a terminal and browsing, what's the problem with Linux?

In the case of my last Linux laptop it was compositing not working when using an external monitor on the low end Intel graphics card I'd picked because it had OSS drivers and was regarded as having excellent Linux support.

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