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Linux is here to welcome you
Man, I cling to Windows like nobody else, as I didn't have any advertising issues and such, but this will be the final straw.
It's already enough of a spying system but I refuse to have it as a spy on crack.
Time to read into distros.
The transition is really not difficult. A distribution like Xubuntu (XFCE+Ubuntu) is very easy. Everything should work out of the box.
xubuntu is fine if your box is a potato or if you're coming from windows vista
Low on resources? My old hardware is interested. Which others would you recommend?
try endeavour os xfce edition..it is arch linux based but everything is preconfigured.It also come with welcome wizard to help out new user, and xfce de is really lightweight, good for old device
how low we're talking
Tecra R840, Thinkpad T410...
You might be semi-comfortably running linux mint cinnamon on these (assuming 4gb ram) with xfce you're trading clunkiness and ancient looks for lower memory usage
no idea about the usual suspects, wifi, bt, graphics probably will require tinkering as is tradition
Arch if you know what you're doing. It's what I use, but my machine is pretty beefy. I've used xubuntu on the mini PC attached to my TV for about 6 years without a hiccup.