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   翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jun-2023 19:21:37 JST 翠星石
   @piezoelectron It's a bad idea to give someone a "Linux PC", as that'll just panic() on boot.
   
   You should be glad to give freedom to someone by giving them a GNU/Linux PC.
   
   Trisquel: https://trisquel.info/ is an excellent choice as it's easy to use, note that some hardware will refuse to work (although that's usually only really 802.11ac Wi-Fi cards and decent external or internal 802.11n ones are rather cheap).
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     𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙 (sallynull@gleasonator.com)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jun-2023 20:16:06 JST 𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙

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     @Suiseiseki @piezoelectron > (although that's usually only really 802.11ac Wi-Fi cards and decent external or internal 802.11n ones are rather cheap)
     
     And any discrete GPU will also give trouble, specially newer AMD and Nvidia ones.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jun-2023 20:16:06 JST 翠星石

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     @sallyNULL @piezoelectron Depends really.
     
     I found Trisquel works fine with even a card as new as the gtx 970 thanks to Nouveau, although the card is stuck at idle clocks as the fans refuse to spin without proprietary software that is cryptographically signed to prevent its replacement.
     
     Even newer AMD ones should work with a native resolution, but you won't get 3D acceleration nor suspend.
     
     
     Integrated Intel still works just fine.