The card meant the death of Windows.

I find this to be rather healthy sacrifice attitude. You pay a few cents more, but the world gets that one micron more normal than it was a second ago. Works for me.

Haven’t bought almost anything from Amazon in decades. No subscriptions or fire sticks either. I think Jeff Bezos got like 13 $ from me. Ever. Period.

There have always been better or just as good deals elsewhere (i.e. eBay). And I think that people do not realize that more than 50% of offered stuff can be obtained CHEAPER when bought directly from the seller/producer.

Just write an eMail and… off you go.

There are several reasons why Linux Mint is to be recommended:

1. That specific distro is almost superlightweight on the resources so even superold computers and laptops can run it smoothly
2. it is ‘‘Windows- like’’ so transitional users can easily transfer
3. Linux is compatible and supports even the oldest hardware (or has a ‘‘driver code support’’ for it). Remember that good Canon scanner without dclivers for windows? Now you can use it.
4. Linux has ‘‘try without installing’’ option

I personally transitioned more than ten years ago; started with Ubuntu and that was fine, but then I discovered that Mint ‘‘flies’’. :-)

Deffinitely to be recommended to a wide public who wants to transition.