I know a young programmer in Brazil who is running Linux on a 2000's laptop simply because they cant afford anything better. At the time I was ignorant of their

I know a young programmer in Brazil who is running Linux on a 2000's laptop simply because they cant afford anything better. At the time I was ignorant of their import taxes and said I had a spare motherboard/cpu/ram combo and a laptop I could send them and they politely refused my offer stating they would go broke paying the import taxes. Sad situation.