Hi,
I am an ordinary GUI and mouse computer user, not a
command line user. But I want to get away from both Apple
and Microsoft. I spent a lot of time looking into Linux,
Unix, BSD, and eventually I discovered Debian. And because
I like to know the details of what I am doing I also
discovered that I just naturally like Debian, too, as Debian
is built upon explanations, fine with me!
I was in the process of partitioning my hard drive to
install Debian when I encountered a couple of UEFI
complications. My HP Laptop with Windows 10 does not offer
a way to disable the "secure boot" feature of UEFI, so that
makes Debian off limits. Then I went to the HP website but
almost all of the available HP desktops and laptops have
Windows 10, with presumably the same useless UEFI that I now
have, and I did not see any Linux-compatible HP computers as
available. I am aware that there are other computer makers
and manufacturers but I am wondering what computers the
Debian community prefers. Fortunately my needs are small
bandwidth-wise, no gaming, no movies, nothing bigger than an
occasional news clip or YouTube clip, so I do not need a
big, powerful computer. I can continue to use Apple and
Microsoft computers for ordinary day-to-day uses but there
are some uses, like banking and financial matters including
credit card use, etc., for which I would very much
appreciate a more secure computer and for different reasons
I
have come to distrust both Apple and Microsoft. OK, so
there is a steep learning curve to using Debian, but I
think I can handle learning how to do what I need to do.
Any computer model suggestions?
Thanks! Best regards, Doug