The New Yorker article said Cuban was approached to be a donor, but it doesn’t say whether he is actually a supporter. Apparently, the group is very close-lipped about where their money is coming from (what a surprise).
I don’t want to turn the thread into too much of a political discussion, but when one political party believes in democracy and one party is an existential threat to democracy, there’s no room for spoiler candidates.
This seems like a golden opportunity for distros like Suse and Ubuntu, who offer enterprise support for their free product, to poach some RHEL customers.
Define cheap. The least expensive laptop on Dell Refurbished currently is $180 and would easily run any desktop environment, including the heavyweights. Specs are here:
CPU
1x Intel Core i5-6300U (2-Core, 2.40 GHz)
Memory
8 GB (1x 8GB)
HDD
256 GB (1x 256 GB SSD)
Display
14" HD (1366 x 768)
If you’re thinking cheaper yet, you’ll want at least a dual core processor and 4GB of RAM. Just about any business laptop from the last 10 years or so would work, as long as you stay away from bottom of the barrel Celerons or AMD processors and <4GB of RAM. You can run Linux on a very low spec machine, but you’d want to use a lightweight DE and web browsing wouldn’t be a fun experience.
OS: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) x86_64
Host: OptiPlex 5050
Kernel: 6.1.0-9-amd64
Uptime: 2 days, 12 hours, 56 mins
Packages: 2281 (dpkg), 21 (flatpak)
Shell: bash 5.2.15
Resolution: 1920x1200
DE: GNOME
WM: Mutter
WM Theme: Adwaita
Theme: Adwaita [GTK2/3]
Icons: Adwaita [GTK2/3]
Terminal: gnome-terminal
CPU: Intel i7-7700 (8) @ 4.200GHz
GPU: Intel HD Graphics 630
Memory: 2798MiB / 15856MiB
Twitter still has devs?