Why Linux?
Every laptop we sell can run Linux instead of Windows. Here's why that's worth it — click through.
Windows collects a lot about you by default
Windows 10 and 11 send diagnostic and usage data back to Microsoft out of the box, Windows 11 Home won't finish setup without a Microsoft account and an internet connection, and newer builds ship with Recall — periodic screenshots of what you're doing, indexed for search. None of that is a conspiracy theory, it's in Microsoft's own documentation. A mainstream Linux desktop like Mint or Debian doesn't phone home at all unless you install something that does.
It brings old hardware back to life
A 7–10 year old laptop that chokes on Windows 11's baseline resource usage often runs Linux Mint or Debian smoothly — no background telemetry services, no preinstalled trialware, no antivirus suite fighting your CPU for cycles. That's not marketing, it's why refurb shops like this one put Linux on older machines instead of a fresh Windows image.
The code is open — you don't have to take our word for it
Linux and the software we install on it (Signal, KeePassXC, VeraCrypt, Tor Browser…) are open source: the actual source code is public, so independent researchers can read it, audit it, and flag anything sketchy. Closed-source software asks you to trust the vendor; open source lets anyone check.
No hardware gate forcing you to buy new
Windows 11 requires TPM 2.0 and a CPU from its supported list, which locked out a huge number of otherwise-fine machines the moment Windows 10 hit end of life — a real driver of e-waste. Linux has no such cutoff. A laptop that's "too old" for Windows 11 is often still a perfectly good Linux machine for years to come.
No ads, no forced accounts, no bloatware
No ads in the Start menu or lock screen, no preinstalled trialware you have to uninstall on day one, no requirement to sign in with a cloud account just to use a local computer. What you install is what's on the machine — nothing more got added on the way.