Hi, I am an ordinary GUI and mouse computer user, not a command line user. But I want to get away from both Apple and Microsoft. I spent a lot of time looking into Linux, Unix, BSD, and eventually I discovered Debian. And because I like to know the details of what I am doing I also discovered that I just naturally like Debian, too, as Debian is built upon explanations, fine with me!
I was in the process of partitioning my hard drive to install Debian when I encountered a couple of UEFI complications. My HP Laptop with Windows 10 does not offer a way to disable the "secure boot" feature of UEFI, so that makes Debian off limits. Then I went to the HP website but almost all of the available HP desktops and laptops have Windows 10, with presumably the same useless UEFI that I now have, and I did not see any Linux-compatible HP computers as available. I am aware that there are other computer makers and manufacturers but I am wondering what computers the Debian community prefers. Fortunately my needs are small bandwidth-wise, no gaming, no movies, nothing bigger than an occasional news clip or YouTube clip, so I do not need a big, powerful computer. I can continue to use Apple and Microsoft computers for ordinary day-to-day uses but there are some uses, like banking and financial matters including credit card use, etc., for which I would very much appreciate a more secure computer and for different reasons I have come to distrust both Apple and Microsoft. OK, so there is a steep learning curve to using Debian, but I think I can handle learning how to do what I need to do. Any computer model suggestions? Thanks! Best regards, Doug
