Looks like they're UK based. I don't know, but apparently tariffs etc are factored into the shipping fees shown on their site.
replyIf 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.
Have you tried it out?
replyhttps://askubuntu.com/questions/629632/can-you-boot-ubuntu-s...
You can also use Ventoy to boot the ISOs which is somewhat easier in my view.
replyA 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.
replyThat's a reasonable fear! But the solution to that is to set up backups, no matter what the operating system you're on.
replyAs 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.
replyCheck out System76 and Framework, they're based in the US and ship Linux machines.
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