> not just for the technical I was mainly referring to putting Gentoo on a free-hardware* machine, so I don't think that would be recommendable to non-technica

> not just for the technical I was mainly referring to putting Gentoo on a free-hardware* machine, so I don't think that would be recommendable to non-technical users for some time, but otherwise, yeah, agree with all your points. Especially about buying new machines - Linux is very much a real benefit when hardware isn't considered disposable. * which doesn't really exist in full, yet, but there's seems to be some initiatives gaining momentum.