That was my intent, yeah. But not everyone has the knowledge on how to install Linux and may be intimidated by its reputation of not being user friendly - not everyone knows how user friendly it can be.
Anomalocarididae
Older, used computers will be slow, but if you know how to give em a good refresh, you can get em running well.
Get yourself an old ThinkPad if you don't care about speed.
You can buy a good screenless tablet from Huion for less than a hundred, and it'll work with basically any laptop or desktop computer. Krita is free and has many of the same features as Procreate. =)
Art.
Gave up on buying and maintaining copics and just bought CSP. May have to switch to Krita at some point, but digital art is far more accessible than other mediums. Want a marker texture? The brushes for that are free, only real barrier is a graphics tabler.
I rejoice at having a girlfriend
I started on a Mastodon instance I can't remember in 2016/17, never used it. Don't remember the account details.
Dec '22, I started on furry.engineer and actually use it.
I've heard Puppy Linux is good, never tried it myself however.
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You can get a computer that good for that cheap nowadays? I must look in the wrong places for em...